HH Ferries bygger om "Aurora" og "Tycho Brahe" til batteridrift

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HH Ferries Launches Battery-Powered Ferry Duo

Swedish Group has inaugurated the two ferries Aurora and Tycho Brahe as the world’s largest battery-powered passenger ferries on the route between Helsingborg, Sweden and Helsingör, Denmark.

Held on November 9, the inauguration marks a milestone for the company’s green strategy, according to HH Ferries. The project reduces the company’s total emissions of CO2, NOx and particles by 65% when the two high-frequency ferries are powered by green electricity.

The battery project on Tycho Brahe and Aurora has lasted more than three years, and with a financial scope of around SEK 300 million (USD 33.1 million), it represents HH Ferries Group’s largest single investment ever. INEA, the European Union’s executive agency for innovation and network, has supported the project with around SEK 120 million.

In each port, automatic land-based charging stations equipped with industrial robots perform the connection and maximize the charging period to enable efficient charging of each vessel’s 640 batteries within a few minutes.

The batteries are located on top of the ferries along with two deckhouses for transformers, converters and cooling systems.

HH Ferries operates the Helsingborg-Helsingör ferry route, transporting up to 50,000 passengers and 9,000 cars across Öresund on a daily basis.

Separately, the company announced that, in an effort “to show that the journey towards becoming the most sustainable transport company in the region is serious,” it will also change its name to ForSea.

“With battery-driven ferries we are taking a big step forward for less emissions, smoke and noise. And we will not compromise on efficiency,” Johan Röstin, CEO at HH Ferries Group, said.

Kilde: World Maritime News

"Aurora"
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Really positive news - this ferry-route ÖRESUNDSLINJEN is now much much cheaper than it was all the decades before !
Always it was the same ticket-price for cars - Helsingborg-Helsingör or via the Öresundbridge Malmö-Copenhagen.
Over the bridge is a few minutes faster - so we have never again normally used the ferry-route since the bridge was open.

But now the new owner of the ÖRESUNDSLINJEN (Nordic ferry Infrastructure) has dropped the ticket-prices massive permanently
similar as on their other ferry-routes Molslinjen, Bornholmslinjen etc. !

Actually price-check, most days, most or many departures - also in high season, car with all pax, one way:
Helsingborg-Helsingör 26,70 Euro (299 SEK)
Malmö-Copenhagen 61,- Euro (455 DKK)
((All the decades before it was always the same higher price, ca. 50,-, then 55,- and at last 60,- Euro !))
Massive price drop now with more than 55 % !!!
And also the next price-groups at Öresundslinjen (f.ex. 349,- - 399,- SEK) are still much cheaper than via the bridge !

So this price-difference will change also our travel-ways to/from Sweden from this year - we (and we will recommend it strongly to all our guests, friends, relativs etc. also) will use the Öresundslinjen then always - and not anymore use the Öresundbridge !

So let`s hope that now really many people will use this ferry-route - than they can order in future much bigger ferries with much higher capacity !
And let`s cross fingers that they will start / overtake more other ferry-routes also in future !
This is the future of successfully and people-friendly ferry-business in Europe - operating with biggest Pax-capacities and highest frequencies for so low as possible ticket-prices !
 
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