Norfolkline

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Norfolkline ro-pax ferry M/S Maersk Delft, built 2006.

Norfolkline conatainer being hauled by a sub-contractor's lorry

Norfolkline is a European multimodal short sea carrier, a subsidiary of the A.P. Moller-Maersk Group. It provides freight ferry services on the English channel, Irish Sea, and the North Sea, passenger ferry services on the English channel and Irish Sea, and logistics services across Europe. Norfolkline currently employs more than 2000 employees in 13 countries across Europe, operating out of 35 different locations.

Norfolkline currently operate 18 vessels, with expansion plans underway. The company owns over 550 refrigerated trailers (including 200 with dual compartment units), 1750 dry-cargo trailers, and 1150 swap-body trailers for intermodal freight transport.

In 2006 more than 1.5 million passengers used Norfolkline's ferry services across the English channel between Dover and Dunkerque and on the Irish Sea (between Liverpool and Belfast & Liverpool and Dublin) and over 1.2 million freight movements were completed.

[edit] History

1961 - Founded as Norfolk Lijn N.V.
1973 - Original owner Remeeus sells Norfolk Lijn to Unilever.
1974 - Renamed Norfolk Line.
1985 - The Maersk Company Ltd, subsidiary of A.P. Møller acquires Norfolk Line.
1995 - Norfolk Line merges with rail transport specialist Skandi.
1997 - Rotterdam (Holland) to Waterford (Ireland) container route opened.
1998 - Current Norfolkline name adopted.
2000 - New Dover (UK) to Dunkerque (France) ferry route started.;
2005 - Acquires Norse Merchant Ferries, a ro-ro ferry operator on Irish Sea routes
2006 - Building a new roll-on/roll-off terminal in Vlaardingen (Rotterdam).