Förde Reederei Seetouristik

Förde Reederei Seetouristik
Industry Transport
Founded 1990
Headquarters Flensburg, Germany
Area served
Strait of Gibraltar
Baltic Sea
North Sea
Elbe
Key people
Götz Becker
Jan Kruse
Christian Baumberger
Services Passenger transportation
Freight transportation
Website www.frs.de
HSC Tanger Jet II as example for fast ferries

Europe is growing together, and shipping company Förde Reederei Seetouristik (FRS) is one of those ventures that have recognised this as an opportunity to develop new business activities beyond home waters.

In recent years, FRS has grown from a regional passenger ferry operator to an internationally active business group with about 30 vessels and approximately 1000 employees. Every year, FRS carries 5.4 million passengers and 1.3 million vehicles in total. The FRS success story as a short route ferry operator goes all the way back to 1866.

Today, FRS, with its base in Northern Germany, has a portfolio that comprises 13 subsidiaries located in Europe and North Africa. In addition to numerous international ferry and catamaran lines, three regional bus operations complete the product range.

Conventional passenger ferries

Double End Carferries

Fleet of operated vessels

Operating Routes

Route Vessel(s) Description
Tarifa (Spain) - Tanger (Morocco) HSC Dolphin Jet, HSC Tarifa Jet, HSC Tanger Jet year-round service
Havneby (Danmark) - Sylt (Germany) MF SyltExpress year-round service
Tallinn (Estonia) - Helsinki, (Finland) HSC Baltic Jet, HSC Nordic Jet year-round service (no traffic during ice period)
Hamburg, Wedel, Cuxhaven - Heligoland HSC Halunder Jet, MS Atlantis season service between March and October
Stralsund, Schaprode, Zingst, Wiek - Hiddensee MS Hansestadt Stralsund, MS Insel Hiddensee, MS Schaprode, MS Gellen day cruises for tourists on a shuttle basis as well as year-round means of transportation for the islander
Taxiboat traffic around the Island Hiddensee (Germany) Taxiboat Störtebeker, Taxiboat Pirat support traffic on demand
Port round-trips for Tourists (sightseeing) in Stralsund MS Altefähr during the summer time
Warnemünde (Germany) - Hohe Düne (Germany) MF Breitling, MF Warnow year-round service
Wittow North (Germany) - Wittow South (Germany) MF Wittow year-round service
Stahlbrode (Germany) - Glewitz (Germany) MF Stahlbrode, MF Glewitz season service between April and October

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