TT-Line GmbH is a shipping company based in

Lübeck Lübeck (; Low German also ), officially the Hanseatic City of Lübeck (german: Hansestadt Lübeck), is a city in Northern Germany. With around 217,000 inhabitants, Lübeck is the second-largest city on the German Baltic coast and in the stat ...

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, which has been providing ferry service between

Travemünde Travemünde () is a borough of Lübeck, Germany, located at the mouth of the river Trave in Bay of Lübeck, Lübeck Bay. It began life as a fortress built by Henry the Lion, Duke of Saxony, in the 12th century to guard the mouth of the Trave, an ...

Schleswig-Holstein Schleswig-Holstein (; da, Slesvig-Holsten; nds, Sleswig-Holsteen; frr, Slaswik-Holstiinj) is the northernmost of the 16 states of Germany, comprising most of the historical duchy of Holstein and the southern part of the former Duchy of Sch ...

and

Trelleborg Trelleborg () is a town in Skåne County, Sweden, with 43,359 inhabitants as of December 31, 2015. It is the southernmost town in Sweden located some west from the southernmost point of Sweden and the Scandinavian peninsula. It is one of the mo ...

in southern

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since 1962. Since 1992, it has also operated a service from

Rostock Rostock (), officially the Hanseatic and University City of Rostock (german: link=no, Hanse- und Universitätsstadt Rostock), is the largest city in the German state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and lies in the Mecklenburgian part of the state, c ...

to Trelleborg (until 1997 marketed as TR-Line) and from Swinoujscie in Poland. As of 2007, TT-Line possesses six

ferries A ferry is a ship, watercraft or amphibious vehicle used to carry passengers, and sometimes vehicles and cargo, across a body of water. A passenger ferry with many stops, such as in Venice, Italy, is sometimes called a water bus or water tax ...

. In 1978, TT-Line acquired 50% of

Olau Line Olau Line was a shipping company that existed from 1956 to 1994. It operated a ferry service from the United Kingdom to the Netherlands from 1974 until 1994. Originally based in Denmark, the company passed under the ownership of the German TT-L ...

and purchased the rest of the company in 1979. TT-Line remained the sole owner of Olau Line until the line's closure in 1994.

Routes

TT-Line offers the following routes: *

Klaipėda Klaipėda (; ; german: Memel; pl, Kłajpeda; russian: Клайпеда; sgs, Klaipieda) is a city in Lithuania on the Baltic Sea coast. The capital of the eponymous county, it is the third largest city and the only major seaport in Lithuan ...

- Trelleborg *

Świnoujście Świnoujście (; german: Swinemünde ; nds, Swienemünn; all three meaning "Świna ivermouth"; csb, Swina) is a city and seaport on the Baltic Sea and Szczecin Lagoon, located in the extreme north-west of Poland. Situated mainly on the islands o ...

- Trelleborg (starting 2014TT-Line
''New route! Świnoujście - Trelleborg''
announcement 2013, retrieved 14 December 2013) * Travemünde -

Helsingborg Helsingborg (, , , ) is a city and the seat of Helsingborg Municipality, Scania (Skåne), Sweden. It is the second-largest city in Scania (after Malmö) and ninth-largest in Sweden, with a population of 113,816 (2020). Helsingborg is the cent ...

(only cargo)

Ferries

Present

TT-Line operates the following ferries: * M/S Robin Hood (Ex Nils Dacke) (1995-) * M/S Nils Dacke (Ex Robin Hood) (1995-) * M/S Akka (Ex Nils Holgersson (6)) (2001-) * M/S Peter Pan (2001-) * M/S Tom Sawyer (Ex Nils Holgersson) (2001-) * M/S Huckleberry Finn (Ex Peter Pan) (2002-) * M/S Nils Holgersson (7) (2022-)

Past

These vessels have sailed for TT-Line: * M/S Nils Holgersson (1) (1962-1967) * M/S Peter Pan (1) (1965-1973) * M/S Calmar Nyckel (1965, Chartered) *

M/S Visby The metre per second is the unit of both speed (a scalar quantity) and velocity (a vector quantity, which has direction and magnitude) in the International System of Units (SI), equal to the speed of a body covering a distance of one metre in a ...

(1966, Chartered) * M/S Finndana (1966, Chartered) * M/S Gösta Berling (Ex Nils Holgersson (1)) (1966-1967,1973-1975) * M/S Nils Holgersson (2) (1967-1975) * M/S Escapade (1967-1973, Chartered) * M/S Sardaigne (1969, Chartered) *

M/S Viking I The metre per second is the unit of both speed (a scalar quantity) and velocity (a vector quantity, which has direction and magnitude) in the International System of Units (SI), equal to the speed of a body covering a distance of one metre in ...

(1973-1974, Chartered) *

M/S Gotland The metre per second is the unit of both speed (a scalar quantity) and velocity (a vector quantity, which has direction and magnitude) in the International System of Units (SI), equal to the speed of a body covering a distance of one metre in ...

(1974, Chartered) * M/S Peter Pan (1974-1986) * M/S Nils Holgersson (3) (1975-1984) * M/S Oliver Twist (Ex Nils Holgersson (3)) (1975-1978) * M/S Mary Poppins (Ex Gösta Berling) (1975-1976) * M/S Robin Hood (1)(1977,1978,1979, Chartered) * (1977, chartered) *

M/S Espresso Olbia The metre per second is the unit of both speed (a scalar quantity) and velocity (a vector quantity, which has direction and magnitude) in the International System of Units (SI), equal to the speed of a body covering a distance of one metre in ...

(1980, Chartered) * M/S Saga Wind (1981-1989) * M/S Norröna (1984-1985, 1986. Chartered) * M/S Stena Transporter (1984, Chartered) * M/S Nordic Sun (1985-1986, Chartered) * M/S Robin Hood (2) (1986-1987) * M/S Saga Moon (1986, Chartered) * M/S Peter Pan (3) (1986-1993) * M/S Saga Star (1986-1988, 1993-2002, Chartered) * M/S Nils Holgersson (4) (1987-1993) * M/S Finnfellow (1988, Chartered) * M/S Nils Dacke (1) (1988-1993) * M/S Robin Hood(3) (1989-1992) * M/S Fedra (1992-1993, Chartered) * M/S TT-Traveller (1992-1995, 1997-2002, Chartered) * M/S Diana II (1992-1994, chartered) * M/S Nils Holgersson (1993), M/S Nils Holgersson (5) (Ex Robin Hood (3)) (1993-2001) * M/S Peter Pan (1993), M/S Peter Pan (4) (Ex Nils dacke (1)) (1993-2001) * M/S Via Ionio (1993, Chartered) * M/S Aries (1994, Chartered) * M/S Saga Aris (1994-1995) * M/S Nord Neptunus (1994, Chartered) * M/S Villars (1995, Chartered) * M/S Gleichberg (1995-1996, Chartered) * HSC Delphin (1996-2002) * HSC TT-Delphin (Ex Delphin) (2002-2005) * M/S Svealand (2006, Chartered) * M/S Götaland (2010, Chartred)

Notes

References

External links

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