SuperSeaCat was a

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operating fast ferries between

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and

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during the years 2006–2008. It was jointly owned by

Sea Containers Sea Containers was a Bermudan registered company which operated two primary business areas: transport and Shipping container, container leasing. It was founded in 1965 by James Sherwood and was initially focused on the leasing of cargo containe ...

and the

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-based Aegean Speed Lines. The term SuperSeaCat had been used as name for Sea Containers' non-

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fast ferries since 1997. From the year 2000 onwards the company operated one SuperSeaCat (later three) under

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 S ...

brand between Helsinki and Tallinn. In 2006 Sea Containers sold Silja Line to

Tallink Tallink () is an Estonian shipping company operating Baltic Sea cruiseferries and ropax ships from Estonia to Finland, Estonia to Sweden and Finland to Sweden. It is the largest passenger and cargo shipping company in the Baltic Sea region. It ...

, a competing

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ferry operator. However, the Silja Line SuperSeaCat's could not be included in the sale as by acquiring them Tallink would have had a dominant market position in Helsinki—Tallinn fast ferry traffic. As a result, Sea Containers established SuperSeaCat as a new subsidiary to continue traffic on the route. In January 2008 SeaContainers sold 50% of the SuperSeaCat operations to the Greece-based Aegean Speed Lines. On 15 October 2008 SuperSeaCat ceased operations due lack of funding and increased competition on the service, and on 20 October 2008 SuperSeaCat went

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Ships

* HSC ''Speedrunner three'' * HSC ''SuperSeaCat Four''

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SuperSeaCat on Fakta om Fartyg
(in Swedish)
SuperSeaCat

Ferry companies of Finland

Ships

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