The railway plays an important role, especially in the area of transnational passenger and goods transport between Continental Europe and Scandinavia.
Scandlines operates the three most important rail ferry routes on the Baltic Sea on these traffic routes. The Rostock-Trelleborg and Sassnitz-Trelleborg lines, with up to 5 departures per day in each direction, are an important transport corridor for rail goods traffic. In the rail passenger conveyance segment, the IC3 trains travelling between Hamburg and Copenhagen are carried via the Puttgarden-Rødby route up to 6 times per day. The night train link between Berlin and Malmö also runs via the Sassnitz-Trelleborg service.

In 2005, Scandlines transported more than 100,000 railcars across the Baltic Sea on these three routes. In the first 6 months of this year, the night train connection between Berlin and Malmö experienced strong growth, in particular, with Scandlines transporting 15% more passenger railcars and 17% more rail passengers on its Sassnitz-Trelleborg service. On the Puttgarden-Rødby line, Scandlines is expecting, at the end of September, its 3 millionth rail passenger since the introduction of the double-end ferry vessel in 1997.

The company’s services include, depending on the customer’s wishes, schedule and route planning, security concepts, as well as tracking and tracing.
Scandlines is the only European ferry company active in the Rail-Net-Europe group. The modern rail ferries create a floating bridge between Continental Europe and the region of Scandinavia.

In addition to the conveyance of complete and block train loads, the Company does, of course, also transport all intermodal and individual railcar consignments, as well as hazardous goods and unusual consignments.
Over the next few weeks, Scandlines will, for example, be transporting new railcars from ALSTOM in Salzgitter on the Puttgarden-Rødby Vogelflug Line, as well as on the Rostock-Trelleborg and Sassnitz-Trelleborg routes. These will help strengthen the local transport network in Denmark and Sweden in the future.

Scandlines presents itself at the Berlin exhibition centre at the radio tower; hall 2.1, stand 115.

Rostock, 18 September 2006