Stena Line

Type	Private
Founded	1962
Location	Göteborg, Sweden
Key people	Gunnar Blomdahl (MD & COO)
Industry	Transport
Products	Ferries, port services, passenger transportation, freight transportation, holidays, business travel
Revenue	9 billion SEK (2004)
Employees	5,700 (2004)
Website	www.stenaline.com/

Stena Line is one of the world's largest ferry operators, with ferry services around the UK and Scandinavia. Stena Line is a major unit of Stena AB, itself a part of the "Stena Sphere", a grouping of Stena AB, Stena Metall AB and Stena Sessan AB. Image File history File links Stena_Line. ... A private company is a company that is independently owned. ... Gothenburg (Swedish: Göteborg  listen? ) is a city and a municipality on the western coast of Sweden, in the County of Västra Götaland. ... Revenue is a US business term for the amount of money that a company can receive from its activities, mostly from sales of products and/or services to customers. ... Green up arrow for a positive change in revenue from last fiscal year. ... SEK may stand for Swedish Krona - the currency of Sweden Spezialeinsatzkommando - the German special police forces ... 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Employment is a contract between two parties, one being the employer and the other being the employee. ... 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The front page of the English Wikipedia Website. ... The Pride of Burgundy, a P&O Ferries car ferry on the Dover-Calais route A ferry is a boat or a ship carrying passengers, and sometimes their vehicles, on scheduled services. ... Scandinavia is a region in Northern Europe named after the Scandinavian Peninsula. ...

History

Stena Line was founded by Sten Allan Olsson when he acquired Skagenlinjen between Sweden and Denmark in 1962. 1962 (MCMLXII) was a common year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1962 calendar). ...

In 1972, Stena Line introduced, as one of the very first ferry operators in Europe, a computer based reservation system for the travel business area. In 1978 also the freight business area started to operatie a computer based reservation system.

The first freight-only route started between Gothenburg in Sweden and Kiel in Germany. The ship was M/S Stena Transporter.

In the 1980s Stena Line acquired two Scandinavian ferry operators and one Dutch operation.

Stena Line buys SMZ Crown Line Holland in 1989 and incorporates the Hoek van Holland - Harwich as a Stena Line route for North Sea.

Stena Line doubled in size in 1990 with the acquisition of Sealink British Ferries, which was formerly known as Sealink until its purchase by Sea Containers Ltd in 1984. This became Sealink Stena Line, then Stena Sealink Line and finally Stena Line (UK), which operates all of Stena’s ferry services between the UK and (Northern) Ireland. This article is about the year. ... Sealink was a ferry company based in the United Kingdom, operating services to France and Ireland. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... 1984 (MCMLXXXIV) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

In 1996 Stena Line introduced its 20,000 tonne HSS vessels (High-speed Sea Service) which operate from Belfast-Stranraer, Holyhead-Dún Laoghaire and Hoek van Holland-Harwich. A smaller version of the HSS high speed craft operates between Gothenburg in Sweden and Frederikshaven in Denmark. 1996 (MCMXCVI) was a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ... WGS-84 (GPS) Coordinates: 54. ... Stranraer (An t-Sròn Reamhar in Gaelic) is a town in the south of Scotland in the west of the region of Dumfries and Galloway and was formerly in the county of Wigtownshire. ... Holyhead (Welsh: Caergybi, the fort of St. ... Dún Laoghaire (Irish pronunciation ; anglicized pronunciation ) is a seaside town and a ferry port situated some 12 km south of Dublin city centre, and is the administrative centre of the county of Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown. ... Ferry terminal on the Nieuwe Waterweg Hoek van Holland (literally Corner of Holland, but known in English as the Hook or Hook of Holland) is a town in South Holland in the Netherlands. ... (This article is about the town in England. ...

In 2000 Stena Line purchased Scandlines AB, a Swedish ferry operator. In 2003 Stena Line announced a £70 million redevelopment of its Belfast and Scottish terminals.

Stena Line, in conjuction with 'one' Railway in the United Kingdom and Nederlandse Spoorwegen in the Netherlands, operates the integrated Dutchflyer service, a rail/sea link between London and Amsterdam. ‘one’ is the brand name of London Eastern Railway Ltd. ... // Introduction Nederlandse Spoorwegen (NS) is the main public transport railway company in the Netherlands. ... Dutchflyer is the name given to an integrated passenger service between the United Kingdom and The Netherlands. ...

Routes

Hook of Holland, ferry to Harwich

• United Kingdom
  • Stranraer – Belfast
  • Fleetwood – Larne
• United Kingdom - Ireland
  • Fishguard – Rosslare
  • Holyhead - Dún Laoghaire
  • Holyhead-Dublin Port
• Netherlands - United Kingdom
  • Hoek van Holland – Harwich
  • Hoek van Holland – Killingholme
  • Rotterdam – Harwich
• Sweden – Denmark
  • Göteborg - Fredrikshavn
  • Varberg – Grenaa
  • Helsingborg – Helsingör - (Scandlines AB)
• Sweden – Germany
  • Göteborg - Kiel
  • Göteborg – Travemünde
  • Trelleborg – Sassnitz - (Scandlines AB)
  • Trelleborg – Rostock - (Scandlines AB)
  • Trelleborg – Travemünde - (Scandlines AB)
• Norway – Denmark
  • Oslo - Fredrikshavn
• Sweden – Poland
  • Karlskrona - Gdynia

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External links

• Stena Line - Corporate site
• Stena Line Reservations - UK online ticket reservations and home pages
• Stena Line Reservations - Swedish online ticket reservations and home pages