Trave Line was a shipping line owned by ''"Stockholms Rederi AB Svea"'', and a part of the ''Linjebuss International AB''
LB/
SL/ TL car and lorry ferry concept. Trave Line operated on the long-distance route between either
Helsingborg,
Scania,
Sweden
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''or''
Port of Tuborg,
Copenhagen,
Denmark and
Travemünde,
Schleswig-Holstein, Western ("Western" as of the time)
Germany. There were no possibilities to drive off in the Port of Tuborg on southbound ferries, nor to drive on board in Port of Tuborg on northbound ships.
Trave Line competed with shorter routes between
Scandinavia and
Western Germany, such as
Rødby –
Puttgarden
is a ferry harbour and a village on the German island of Fehmarn. It lies on an important route between Germany and Denmark known as the Vogelfluglinie which crosses the strait, the Fehmarnbelt, to Rødby on the island of Lolland.
Overview
...
and
Trelleborg –
Travemünde. After the 1973
energy crisis and the heavily increased oil prices, the ferry route got financial problems and was closed down by the headquarters in
Stockholm
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in 1976.
Their ferries departed twice every day and the total crossing time was about 10 hours. The shipping line was designed for lorries and drivers, but cars were welcome just as passengers without vehicles.
References
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Year of establishment missing
1976 disestablishments in Sweden
Transport in Copenhagen
Water transport in Germany
Water transport in Denmark
Water transport in Sweden