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Silja Line
Silja Line is a Finnish shipping company and cruiseferry brand owned and operated by the Estonian shipping company AS Tallink Grupp, for car, cargo and passenger traffic between Finland and Sweden. The former company Silja Oy—today Tallink Silja Oy—is, since 2006, a subsidiary of AS Tallink Grupp, handling marketing and sales for ''Tallink'' and ''Silja Line'' brands in Finland as well as managing Tallink Silja's ship employees. Another subsidiary, Tallink Silja AB, handles marketing and sales in Sweden. Strategical corporate management is performed by Tallink Grupp which also own the ships. As of 2009, four ships service two routes under the Silja Line brand, transporting about three million passengers and 200,000 cars every year. The Silja Line ships have a market share of around 50 percent on the two routes served. The Silja Line logo features the text ''Silja Line'' and a figure of a seal. Since 2014, the figure of the seal has been smiling. The famous theme tune hea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Silja is a feminine given name used in the Nordic countries and Germany. The Danish/Norwegian equivalent is Silje. In Finnish, it is a derived from the name Cecilia (of Saint Cecilia). People * Silja Walter (1919–2011), Swiss author * Silja Vöneky (born 1969), German jurist * Anja Silja (born 1940), German soprano * Silja Känsäkoski (born 1997), Finnish swimmer * Silja Lehtinen (born 1985), Finnish sailor * Silja Suija (born 1974), Estonian cross-country skier * Silja Kanerva (born 1985), Finnish sailor * Silja Ekeland Bjørkly (born 1976), Norwegian politician * Silja Kosonen (born 2002), Finnish hammer thrower * Silja Tarvonen (born 1985), Finnish orienteering competitor * Silja Dögg Gunnarsdóttir (born 1973), Icelandic politician Companies * Silja Line (originally just Silja), Finnish cruise shipping brand ** MS Silja Europa, MS ''Silja Europa'' ** MS Silja Serenade, MS ''Silja Serenade'' ** MS Silja Symphony, MS ''Silja Symphony'' References {{given name German ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Finland Steamship Company
Finland Steamship Company (, abbreviated ''FÅA'', , abbreviated ''SHO'') was a Finland, Finnish shipping company founded in 1883 by Captain Lars Krogius. In Finnish and Swedish, the company was usually referred to simply as FÅA. In 1976, the company changed its name to Effoa, a phonetic spelling of the abbreviation FÅA. The company was a founding member of the Silja Line consortium. In 1975 FÅA founded Finncarriers together with Finnlines as a joint freight operations venture. At the same time FÅA gave up passenger traffic between Finland and Germany, the ships used on the route were sold to Finnlines. In the 1980s both Finncarriers and Finnlines became fully owned subsidiaries of Effoa. In 1989 Effoa decided to give up its freight-carrying operations, and its shares of Finnlines were transferred to Effoa's owners. Effoa stopped trading as an independent company in 1990 when its freight operations were demerged to form an independent Finnlines, while the passenger operation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Wasa or WASA may refer to: Places * Wasa, Cameroon, a town in Extrême-Nord region * Wasa, British Columbia, Canada, a settlement * Wasa Lake, British Columbia, Canada * Vaasa, Finland, a town, formerly spelled Wasa * Wasa (Tanzanian ward), a ward in Iringa Rural district Ships and shipping * ''Vasa'' (ship), 17th-century Swedish warship, formerly spelled ''Wasa'' * SS ''Wasa'' (1907) a Swedish cargo ship sold to Norway in 1925 and renamed SS ''Henry'' * Wasa 30, a Swedish sailboat * Wasa Line, a former Finnish shipping company WASA * Chattogram WASA, Chittagong Water Supply and Sewerage Authority, Bangladesh * Dhaka WASA, Dhaka Water Supply and Sewerage Authority, Bangladesh * District of Columbia Water and Sewer Authority, Washington DC * Water and Sewerage Authority, Trinidad and Tobago * Western Action Shooting Association * Western Australia Softball Association * WASA-LD, a low-power television station licensed to serve Port Jervis, New York, United States Other uses *Was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Viking Line
Viking Line Abp is a Finland, Finnish shipping company that operates a fleet of ferry, ferries and cruiseferry, cruiseferries between Finland, the Åland, Åland Islands, Sweden and Estonia. Viking Line shares are quoted on the Helsinki Stock Exchange. Viking Line is operated from Åland. Company history Early years: 1959–1966 Viking Line's history can be traced back to 1959, when a group of sea- and businessmen from the Åland Islands province in Finland formed Rederi Ab Vikinglinjen, purchased a steam-powered car-ferry SS ''Dinard'' from the UK, renamed her and began service on the route Korpo (Finland)–Mariehamn (Åland)–Gräddö (Sweden).Viking Line: 40 Years of Ferry Service retrieved 12. 10. 2007 Eliasson, Thor-Alf: ''Viking Line i backspegeln''. Mariehamns Tryck ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baltic Sea
The Baltic Sea is an arm of the Atlantic Ocean that is enclosed by the countries of Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Russia, Sweden, and the North European Plain, North and Central European Plain regions. It is the world's largest brackish water basin. The sea stretches from 53°N to 66°N latitude and from 10°E to 30°E longitude. It is a Continental shelf#Shelf seas, shelf sea and marginal sea of the Atlantic with limited water exchange between the two, making it an inland sea. The Baltic Sea drains through the Danish straits into the Kattegat by way of the Øresund, Great Belt and Little Belt. It includes the Gulf of Bothnia (divided into the Bothnian Bay and the Bothnian Sea), the Gulf of Finland, the Gulf of Riga and the Bay of Gdańsk. The "Baltic Proper" is bordered on its northern edge, at latitude 60°N, by Åland and the Gulf of Bothnia, on its northeastern edge by the Gulf of Finland, on its eastern edge by the Gulf of Riga, and in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ferry
A ferry is a boat or ship that transports passengers, and occasionally vehicles and cargo, across a body of water. A small passenger ferry with multiple stops, like those in Venice, Italy, is sometimes referred to as a water taxi or water bus. Ferries form a part of the public transport systems of many waterside cities and islands, allowing direct transit between points at a capital cost much lower than bridges or tunnels. Ship connections of much larger distances (such as over long distances in water bodies like the Baltic Sea) may also be called ferry services, and many carry vehicles. History The profession of the ferryman is embodied in Greek mythology in Charon, the boatman who transported souls across the River Styx to the Underworld. Speculation that a pair of oxen propelled a ship having a water wheel can be found in 4th century Roman literature "''Anonymus De Rebus Bellicis''". Though impractical, there is no reason why it could not work and such a ferry, mod ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roll-on/roll-off
Roll-on/roll-off (RORO or ro-ro) ships are cargo ships designed to carry wheeled cargo, such as cars, motorcycles, trucks, semi-trailer trucks, buses, Trailer (vehicle), trailers, and railroad cars, that are driven on and off the ship on their own wheels or using a platform vehicle, such as a self-propelled modular transporter. This is in contrast to lift-on/lift-off (LoLo) vessels, which use a crane (machine), crane to load and unload cargo. RORO vessels have either built-in or shore-based Linkspan, ramps or ferry slips that allow the cargo to be efficiently rolled on and off the vessel when in port. While smaller ferries that operate across rivers and other short distances often have built-in ramps, the term RORO is generally reserved for large seagoing vessels. The ramps and doors may be located in the stern, Bow (ship), bow, or sides, or any combination thereof. Description Types of RORO vessels include ferry, ferries, cruiseferry, cruiseferries, cargo ships, barges, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Silja is a feminine given name used in the Nordic countries and Germany. The Danish/Norwegian equivalent is Silje. In Finnish, it is a derived from the name Cecilia (of Saint Cecilia). People * Silja Walter (1919–2011), Swiss author * Silja Vöneky (born 1969), German jurist * Anja Silja (born 1940), German soprano * Silja Känsäkoski (born 1997), Finnish swimmer * Silja Lehtinen (born 1985), Finnish sailor * Silja Suija (born 1974), Estonian cross-country skier * Silja Kanerva (born 1985), Finnish sailor * Silja Ekeland Bjørkly (born 1976), Norwegian politician * Silja Kosonen (born 2002), Finnish hammer thrower * Silja Tarvonen (born 1985), Finnish orienteering competitor * Silja Dögg Gunnarsdóttir (born 1973), Icelandic politician Companies * Silja Line Silja Line is a Finnish shipping company and cruiseferry brand owned and operated by the Estonian shipping company AS Tallink Grupp, for car, cargo and passenger traffic between Finland and Sweden. The former ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Botnia Model
The Gulf of Bothnia (; ; ) is divided into the Bothnian Bay and the Bothnian Sea, and it is the northernmost arm of the Baltic Sea, between Finland's west coast ( East Bothnia) and the northern part of Sweden's east coast ( West Bothnia and North Bothnia). In the south of the gulf lies Åland, between the Sea of Åland and the Archipelago Sea. Name Bothnia is a latinization. The Swedish name was originally just , with being Old Norse for "gulf" or "bay", which is also the meaning of the second element . The name was applied to the Gulf of Bothnia as in Old Norse, after , which at the time referred to the coastland west of the gulf. Later, was applied to the regions of on the western side and on the eastern side ('West Bottom' and 'East Bottom'). The Finnish name of Österbotten, (, meaning 'land'), hint as to the meaning in both languages: the meaning of includes both 'bottom' and 'north'. is the base word for north, , with an adjectival suffix added. / is cogna ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1952 Summer Olympics
The 1952 Summer Olympics (, ), officially known as the Games of the XV Olympiad (, ) and commonly known as Helsinki 1952, were an international multi-sport event held from 19 July to 3 August 1952 in Helsinki, Finland. After Japan declared in 1938 that it would be unable to host the 1940 Olympics in Tokyo due to the ongoing Second Sino-Japanese War, Helsinki had been selected to host the 1940 Summer Olympics, which were then cancelled due to World War II. Tokyo eventually hosted the games in 1964. Helsinki is the northernmost city at which a summer Olympic Games have been held. With London hosting the 1948 Olympics, 1952 is the most recent time when two consecutive summer Olympic Games were held entirely in Europe. The 1952 Summer Olympics was the last of the two consecutive Olympics to be held in Northern Europe, following the 1952 Winter Olympics in Oslo, Norway. They were also the Olympic Games at which the most world records were broken until they were surpassed by the 2008 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stockholm
Stockholm (; ) is the Capital city, capital and List of urban areas in Sweden by population, most populous city of Sweden, as well as the List of urban areas in the Nordic countries, largest urban area in the Nordic countries. Approximately 1 million people live in the Stockholm Municipality, municipality, with 1.6 million in the Stockholm urban area, urban area, and 2.5 million in the Metropolitan Stockholm, metropolitan area. The city stretches across fourteen islands where Mälaren, Lake Mälaren flows into the Baltic Sea. Outside the city to the east, and along the coast, is the island chain of the Stockholm archipelago. The area has been settled since the Stone Age, in the 6th millennium BC, and was founded as a city in 1252 by Swedish statesman Birger Jarl. The city serves as the county seat of Stockholm County. Stockholm is the cultural, media, political, and economic centre of Sweden. The Stockholm region alone accounts for over a third of the country's Gros ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
