The Scandlines ferry “Mecklenburg-Vorpommern”, which operates on the Rostock-Trelleborg route, is one of the largest combined Ro/Pax rail ferry vessels in the world. The ship celebrates its 10th anniversary on 13 December 2006

On 13 November 2006, the companies MarineSoft Entwicklungs- und Logistikgesellschaft mbH and Scandlines presented information about current research on innovative applications of the future European Satellite Navigation System, Galileo.

Growth on all three lines to and from Ventspils / route from Rostock successfully on course

From 19 - 22 September 2006, the German-Danish shipping company, Scandlines, is presenting its range of products for rail transport companies at the international Innotrans trade fair in Berlin. 

Boom in traffic between Germany and Denmark / Rostock-Ventspils launched successfully

The German-Danish shipping company Scandlines AG increased its cargo business once again in the first three months of this year.
By the end of March 2006, more than 242,000 trucks and trailers had been transported on the company’s Baltic Sea routes in the triangle between Germany, Denmark, Sweden and the Baltic States, i.e. around 17,000 more units (+ 7.6 %) than in the same period of the previous year, announced the company on the occasion of the RoRo 2006 international trade fair taking place in Ghent (Belgium) from 16 – 18 May 2006.

With turnover of EUR 523 million and a 16% increase in operating profit, Scandlines achieved its best result since the founding of the company.

Considerable growth particularly on the lines to and from Scandinavia due to greatly increased traffic from the new EU Member States

“The Scandlines shipping line achieved substantial growth in the transport of trucks in 2005. For the first time in Scandlines’ history, we carried more than 1 million trucks on our route network across the Baltic Sea. This corresponds to a growth of 5.5% compared with the previous year”, reported CFO Uwe Bakosch.