Norled (earlier Tide Sjø AS) is a Norwegian

shipping company A shipping line or shipping company is a company whose line of business is ownership and operation of ships. Shipping companies provide a method of distinguishing ships by different kinds of cargo: # Bulk cargo is a type of special cargo that is ...

responsible for the group's ferry transport. Tide operates automobile ferries and fast ferries in

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Vestland Vestland is a Counties of Norway, county in Norway. The county is located in Western Norway, and its administrative centre is Bergen, where the executive and political leadership is based. The County governor (Norway), County Governor is based in ...

Sunnmøre Sunnmøre (, ) is the southernmost traditional district of the western Norwegian county of Møre og Romsdal. Its main city is Ålesund. The region comprises the municipalities () of Fjord, Giske, Hareid, Herøy, Sande, Haram, Stranda Mu ...

and

Trondheim Fjord The Trondheim Fjord or Trondheimsfjorden (), an inlet of the Norwegian Sea, is Norway's third-longest fjord at long. It is located in the west-central part of the country in Trøndelag county, and it stretches from Ørland Municipality in th ...

on contract with the

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and Skyss. The company operates 45 car ferries, 17 fast ferries and one

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. The name Tide Sjø was first used by HSD Sjø AS after

Hardanger Sunnhordlandske Dampskipsselskap Hardanger Sunnhordlandske Dampskipsselskap (HSD), founded in 1880, was one of Norway's largest privately held public transportation providers. Its bus operation HSD Buss AS was founded in 1999, and serviced 15 million passengers annually in large ...

had merged with

Gaia Trafikk Gaia Trafikk was the largest public transportation provider in Bergen, Norway, Bergen and Os, Hordaland, Os, Norway until it merged with HSD forming Tide. Gaia was formed by the 1998 merger of Pan Trafikk, the bus company serving northern and ...

. In 2007 Tide Sjø merged with

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, its subsidiary

Fjordservice Fjordservice AS is a defunct passenger ferry company that operated routes from Stavanger to Ryfylke in Rogaland, Norway. It operated from 1990 to 2008. The routes operated were Stavanger– Mekjarvik– Kvitsøy, Stavanger– Usken–Hommersåk and ...

and the Tide–Stavangerske joint venture Nor-Ferjer. After fissioning from

Tide Tides are the rise and fall of sea levels caused by the combined effects of the gravitational forces exerted by the Moon (and to a much lesser extent, the Sun) and are also caused by the Earth and Moon orbiting one another. Tide tables ...

in December 2011, the company changed the name to Norled on 1 January 2012.https://www.polandatsea.com/remontowa-shipbuilding-to-build-four-vessels-for-norled/

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{{Authority control Shipping companies of Norway Ferry companies of Møre og Romsdal Ferry companies of Rogaland Ferry companies of Trøndelag Ferry companies of Vestland Companies based in Bergen Norwegian companies established in 2007 Transport companies established in 2007

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