Scandlines is wanting ahead to the summer time with confidence, strengthened by its dedication to the Inexperienced Agenda and robust demand for pre-bookings.
Within the first half of 2023, Scandlines skilled an upturn in passenger visitors on each major routes: Rostock-Gedser and Puttgarden-Rødby. The ferry firm transported extra vehicles than in the identical interval final 12 months. Truck visitors has decreased considerably, however given the virtually fixed development in freight visitors over the past 12 years, that is comprehensible in present instances. The excessive variety of pre-bookings for the height season makes Scandlines optimistic concerning the second half of the 12 months.
Scandlines is betting closely on its Inexperienced Agenda, which goals to scale back direct emissions from ferries to zero by 2040. Since gasoline prices are unlikely to fall to earlier ranges, Scandlines is specializing in vitality optimization initiatives.
One among these is equipping the ferries on the Rostock-Gedser route with a rotor sail. After the primary 12 months of operation, measurements confirmed that this decreased gasoline consumption and due to this fact CO2 emissions by a median of 4%.
One other important vitality optimization measure was additionally applied on the Rostock-Gedser route: the middle propellers of each hybrid ferries had been changed with new, shorter propeller blades firstly of 2023. This enchancment results in a saving of a full 11% of drive vitality and round 6% of the full vitality requirement.
Scandlines' first zero-emission ferry will go into operation on the Puttgarden-Rødby route subsequent 12 months. This ferry, the “PR24”, is presently beneath development within the Turkish shipyard Cemre and is scheduled to be launched within the autumn.
Heiko Kähler, Managing Director of Scandlines Deutschland GmbH, emphasised: “We’re very proud to offer our prospects more and more CO2-efficient ferries as a method of transport. In view of local weather change, we should reach switching to zero-emission operations. This 12 months too, it appears as if our prospects will likely be comfortable to observe this path with us.”
So plan your subsequent journey to Scandinavia with Scandlines for a greener, extra sustainable journey expertise.