Stena Line stops sailing between Oslo and Frederikshavn
Mar 19, 2020 17:38:57 GMT -8
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Post by heretix on Mar 19, 2020 17:38:57 GMT -8
In a press release yesterday, a spokesperson for the Swedish Stena Line announced that the company had decided to stop their sailings between the Norwegian capital and the North Danish port city permamently and with immediate effect.
The Coronavirus thus put an end to a 40 years long tradition, where the MS Stena Saga was the last in a long line of proud ferries to cross the Skagerrak Ocean on a daily basis.
The Stena Saga, which was also a popular party vessel among day trippers, was virtually empty over the last weeks because people became afraid of contracting Covid-19 - and eventually also because of closed borders between Norway and Denmark - and Stena Line was facing a huge loss the next 6-12 months if they had continued the route.
While all of Stena Line's 30 Norwegian employees are being terminated as a result, the Stena Saga lies tied up in Gothenburg while waiting to be sold, scrapped, refurbished or used on another route.
An epoch with a familiar sight in the Oslo Fjord has now come to a sorry end.
Photo credit: Drammens Tdende
The Coronavirus thus put an end to a 40 years long tradition, where the MS Stena Saga was the last in a long line of proud ferries to cross the Skagerrak Ocean on a daily basis.
The Stena Saga, which was also a popular party vessel among day trippers, was virtually empty over the last weeks because people became afraid of contracting Covid-19 - and eventually also because of closed borders between Norway and Denmark - and Stena Line was facing a huge loss the next 6-12 months if they had continued the route.
While all of Stena Line's 30 Norwegian employees are being terminated as a result, the Stena Saga lies tied up in Gothenburg while waiting to be sold, scrapped, refurbished or used on another route.
An epoch with a familiar sight in the Oslo Fjord has now come to a sorry end.
Photo credit: Drammens Tdende
