Trailer trucking services between the European cities of Gedser in Denmark and Rostock in Germany will be getting a little help reducing the number of road miles they need to travel while trucking freight between these two historic cities. Ferry operator Scandlines is preparing to increase services on this route with two new ferries that can carry up to 90 trucking transports each between these two cities at a time. The new ferries are supposedly being constructed in Volkswerft Stralsund in Germany for an undisclosed amount of money.
These new ferries are slated to replace the Kronprins Frederik and Prins Joachim on this route. Scandlines might be trying to set up a service to compete against the Fehmarn Belt Bridge, which will connect the island of Fehmarn with Copenhagen and other regions, once it’s completed. If this is their goal Scandlines will have to get to work turning this trucking transport service into a traffic machine. This new service should be reasonably popular though, since it will allow trucking services to reduce the number of road miles travelled and it’s possible the costs involved for trucking firms using this service could be reduced.
The new ferries being built in Germany for Scandlines are going to be around 170-metres in length and will have over 1500 metres of lanes of capacity for trucks. They’re also going to be designed and built with the latest innovations for enhancing fuel economy and reducing carbon emissions. Exact specifics on the fuel economy and carbon emissions ratings of these new vessels were not available at this time.