The ferry company on the route between Helsingør and Helsingborg is changing its name. The current ForSea will become Øresundlinjen.
This is the effect of Molslinjen’s purchase of the Helsingborg-based shipping company in autumn 2022.
Molslinjen expects the entire rebranding as well as new paint and logo on all ferries to be completed during 2025.
The first ferry, TYCHO BRAHE, is scheduled to return to service on 4 October 2023.
Molslinjen is now officially the new owner of ForSea, the company which operates between Helsingør and Helsingborg.
The announced transaction was recently approved by the competition authorities in Denmark and Sweden, and now the transaction has been completed.
Broker sources report that both the ro-ro ships MARIA GRAZIA ONORATO and ALF POLLAK owned by Siem Ro-Ro and bareboat chartered by Moby-CIN, have been sub-chartered to DFDS for 24 months.
Daily rate would be EUR 25,500.
The news seems to be confirmed for ALF POLLAK since the ship has started operating early this month on the Turkey – France line operated by DFDS.
MARIA GRAZIA ONORATO, instead, is still deployed on the routes linking Belgium, Denmark and the UK for CLdN RoRo.
The Danish and Swedish competition authorities have now approved Molslinjen‘s announced purchase of ferry company ForSea.
With the support of EQT Infrastructure, Molslinjen A/S has entered into a final agreement to acquire ForSea from Igneo Infrastructure Partners.
ForSea is the sole operator of ferries between Helsingør, Denmark and Helsingborg, Sweden, providing ferry services via a single ferry route strategically located at the nearest point between the two countries (approx. 4 km).
As a true “floating bridge”, the ForSea ferries are an integral part of the Nordic transport infrastructure network and carry six million passengers, one million passenger cars and 450,000 trucks across the Öresund every year.
The company operates 5 ferries across the route, 2 of which are electric and a third is scheduled for electric operation – setting a clear path to full decarbonisation of the fleet within this decade.
Molslinjen was acquired by EQT Infrastructure in 2021.
The transaction is subject to approval by the Swedish and Danish competition authorities and is expected to be completed in early 2023. The parties have agreed not to disclose the selling price.
A total of 135,000 people travelled with ForSea in the period Wednesday-Sunday 25-29 May (Ascencion)
“It is with pleasure that we can state that we are breaking the record from 2017. It becomes clear to us that the offer on board and the voyage itself is really appreciated by our passengers,” says Kristian Durhuus, CEO of ForSea.
Covid made people rediscover nearby destinations, and this ‘staycation’ trend seems to continue.
Some highlights:
We did a few crossings between Sweden and Denmark, on the battery-powered ferry AURORA AF HELSINGBORG.
In this short video, senior chief engineer Christian Andersson explains how the ship is being charged in five minutes, for a crossing of 20 minutes.