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Baltic routE
A new German
call for Finnlines
Three weekly departures from the
port of Rostock to Helsinki
From the 3 rd of December
6 GNE WS
Finnlines has included the Ger-
man port of Rostock in its route
network. This has been made possible
through the replacement of the port of
Travemünde (Germany) with Rostock, in
the current three-times-a-week service
of Finnlines between Travemünde, Gdy-
nia (Poland) and Helsinki.
Rostock, an old Hanseatic city with strong
seafaring and shipbuilding history, is
situated on Germany’s Baltic Sea coast,
at the mouth of the Warnow River. The
location is very favourable as it is a natu-
ral corridor for freight from South East-
ern Germany, South Eastern Europe to
Finland and Russia. The new service
enables Finnlines to offer three ports on
the Southern Baltic Sea as a gateway for
transport to and from Finland; as a result
Finnlines’ customers can optimise their
cargo flows from Finland by choosing the
most suitable port. Passengers will now
also have an opportunity to choose the
shortest route for their trip.
The three weekly departures Rostock-
Gdynia-Helsinki are now served by
two “Star-class” ro-pax vessels. The
transit time Rostock-Gdynia is 14 hours,
Gdynia-Helsinki 19 hours and Rostock-
Helsinki 38 hours.
Apart from the new three-times-a-
week Rostock-Gdynia-Helsinki service,
Finnlines operates the direct service
Travemünde-Helsinki with a transit time
of just 27 hours.
“This process-oriented logistic approach
will enable us to handle cargo flows op-
timally. With this change we can offer
an extensive and efficient network for
the main cargo flows on the Baltic Sea
and combine them with our passengers’
requirements. These modern Star-class
ro-pax vessels, which entered service
in 2006 and 2007- are the largest and
fastest in their class” said Uwe Bakosch,
CEO of Finnlines PLC- “and are specifi-
cally built for the weather conditions in
the Baltic Sea”.