Europe

Europe

Europe is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally 'divided' from Asia to its east by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian and Black Seas, and the waterways connecting...

Belgium

Belgium

Belgium , officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a federal state in Western Europe. It is a founding member of the European Union and hosts the EU's headquarters, and those of several other major international organisations such as NATO.Belgium is also a member of, or affiliated to, many...

• Oostende Lines
• Red Star Line
  Red Star Line
  The Red Star Line was an ocean passenger line founded in 1871 as a joint venture between the International Navigation Company of Philadelphia, which also ran the American Line, and the Société Anonyme de Navigation Belgo-Américaine of Antwerp, Belgium...
  
  
• Regie voor Maritiem Transport
  Regie voor Maritiem Transport
  Regie voor Maritiem Transport was the Belgian state-owned ferry service and operated ferries on the Ostend-Dover route under the name Oostende Lines. For the last few years until its demise in February 1997, the ferries from Ostend went to Ramsgate instead of Dover, in partnership with Sally Line...
  
   (State-owned enterprise)
• Transeuropa Ferries
  Transeuropa Ferries
  TransEuropa Ferries operates a ferry service between Ramsgate, Kent, UK and Ostend, West Flanders, Belgium. TransEuropa Ferries n.v. is the cross channel satellite arm of TransEuropa Shipping Lines d.o.o. of Slovenia....
  
   (TransEuropa Shipping Lines, Slovenia
  Slovenia
  Slovenia , officially the Republic of Slovenia , is a country in Central and Southeastern Europe touching the Alps and bordering the Mediterranean. Slovenia borders Italy to the west, Croatia to the south and east, Hungary to the northeast, and Austria to the north, and also has a small portion of...
  
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Denmark

Denmark

Denmark is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. The countries of Denmark and Greenland, as well as the Faroe Islands, constitute the Kingdom of Denmark . It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries, southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and bordered to the south by Germany. Denmark...

• Arctic Umiaq Line A/S
  Arctic Umiaq Line
  Arctic Umiaq Line A/S or Arctic Umiaq is a passenger and freight line in Greenland. Its name derives from the Greenlandic word for a traditional Inuit boat, the umiaq. The sea connection provided by Arctic Umiaq is a lifeline for the entire western and southwestern Greenland...
  
  
• Bornholmstrafikken
  Bornholmstrafikken
  BornholmerFærgen is a Danish ferry company which connects the island of Bornholm to Denmark, Sweden and Germany.-History:1866The Dampskibsselskabet på Bornholm af 1866 A/S was formed.1963Car ferry Bornholmerpilen enters service....
  
  
• DFDS Seaways
  DFDS Seaways
  DFDS Seaways is a large Danish shipping company operating passenger and freight services across Northern Europe. Following the acquisition of Norfolkline in 2010, DFDS restructured its other shipping divisions into the previously passenger only operation of DFDS Seaways.-History:The company has...
  
   (DFDS A/S)
• Mols-Linien
  Mols-linien
  Mols-Linien is a Danish company that operates ferry services between the Jutland and the island of Zealand.-History:Mols-Linien was formed by DFDS in 1964 sailings commenced on the 18th May 1966....
  
   (Clipper Group
  Clipper Group
  Clipper Group is a shipping company based in the Bahamas which owns and manages a fleet of 250 ships worldwide. In 2002 Clipper Group acquired full ownership of Irish Sea ferry operator Seatruck Ferries.-Subsidiaries:...
  
  , Bahamas)
• Scandlines
  Scandlines
  Scandlines is a major German-Danish ferry operator.It consists of a parent company, Scandlines AG, and under this parent company a German subsidiary named Scandlines Deutschland GmbH and a Danish subsidiary named Scandlines Danmark A/S...
  
  

Finland

Finland

Finland , officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country situated in the Fennoscandian region of Northern Europe. It is bordered by Sweden in the west, Norway in the north and Russia in the east, while Estonia lies to its south across the Gulf of Finland.Around 5.4 million people reside...

• Alandstrafiken
  Ålandstrafiken
  Ålandstrafiken is a ferry company based in the Åland Islands, an archipelago of over 6,500 islands in the Baltic Sea and a Swedish-speaking autonomous province of Finland. The company operates inter-island services as well as links to ports in western Finland. It also operates local buses.-External...
  
  
• Birka Cruise
  Birka Line
  Birka Line is an Ålandian shipping company that operates a cruise ship on the Baltic Sea with Stockholm as the starting point under the name Birka Cruises. Birka Line has a cargo-shipping subsidiary, Birka Cargo. During the 1970s the company was often marketed as Ålandslinjen...
  
   (Eckero Line)
• Eckero Line
  Eckerö Line
  Eckerö Line is a Finnish shipping companies owned by the Åland-based Rederiaktiebolaget Eckerö. Eckerö Line operates two ferries between Helsinki and Tallinn...
  
  
• Finnlines
  Finnlines
  Finnlines Plc is a Finnish shipping company that operates freight throughout Northern Europe as well as passenger services in the Baltic Sea. In the past, Finnlines has operated ships under the brands Finncarriers, Finnflow Systems, Finnjet Lines, and FG Shipping Oy Ab...
  
   (Grimaldi Group
  Grimaldi Group
  The Grimaldi Group is a private shipping company owned by Guido Grimaldi and based in Livorno, Italy. Grimaldi operates a large fleet of ro-ro vessels.- Shipping :...
  
  , Italy)
• Jakob Lines
  Jakob Lines
  Jakob Lines was a ferry operator based in Jakobstad , Finland. The company was established in 1969 by the city of Jakobstad. It operated routes between Jakobstad and Kokkola in Finland, and Skellefteå, Umeå, and Örnsköldsvik in Sweden....
  
  
• Kristina Cruises
  Kristina Cruises
  Kristina Cruises is a Finnish family-owned shipping company with over fifty years of experience in cruise business. The company was founded in 1985 and registered in Kotka. In addition to the five destinations in the early days of business they currently sail to more than 70 ports...
  
  
• RG Line
  RG Line
  RG Line Oy Ab is a Finnish shipping company founded in 2001 that operates a ferry line between Vaasa, Finland and Umeå, Sweden.The company was founded in 2001 by well known Rabbe Grönblom, just months after Silja Line had put their traffic on Kvarken / Merenkurkku to an end because of a decision in...
  
  
• Sally Cruise
  Sally Cruise
  Sally Cruise was a wholly owned subsidiary of Rederi Ab Sally, Finland that operated cruise ships on the Baltic Sea between the years 1986 and 1992. It was merged into Silja Line 1992.-Company history:...
  
   (Rederi Ab Sally
  Rederi Ab Sally
  Rederi Ab Sally was a Finnish shipping company founded in the 1937 by Algot Johansson. Originally a tanker operator, Sally became a dominant member of the Viking Line shipping consortium in the 1970s. The company met bad times in the 1980s and was bought by its rivals Effoa and Johnson Line in 1987...
  
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• SeaWind Line
  SeaWind Line
  SeaWind Line was a subsidiary of the Finnish passenger shipping company Silja Line, later owned by the Estonian company Tallink. In 2010, the Sea Wind brand ceased to exist and the remaining ship, MS Sea Wind, was transferred to Tallink colours. MS Sea Wind is dedicated to cargo shipping only,...
  
   (Silja Line
  Silja Line
  Silja Line is a Finnish cruiseferry brand operated by the Estonian ferry company AS Tallink Grupp, for car and passenger traffic between Finland and Sweden. The former company Silja Oy – today Tallink Silja Oy – is a subsidiary of Tallink Grupp, handling marketing and sales for Tallink and Silja...
  
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• Silja Line
  Silja Line
  Silja Line is a Finnish cruiseferry brand operated by the Estonian ferry company AS Tallink Grupp, for car and passenger traffic between Finland and Sweden. The former company Silja Oy – today Tallink Silja Oy – is a subsidiary of Tallink Grupp, handling marketing and sales for Tallink and Silja...
  
   (Tallink
  Tallink
  Tallink is an Estonian shipping company currently operating Baltic Sea cruiseferries and ropax ships from Estonia to Finland, Estonia to Sweden, Latvia to Sweden and Finland to Germany. They also own Silja Line and a part of SeaRail...
  
  , Estonia)
• SuperSeaCat
  SuperSeaCat
  SuperSeaCat was a shipping company operating fast ferries between Helsinki, Finland and Tallinn, Estonia during the years 2006—2008. It was jointly owned by Sea Containers and the Greece-based Aegean Speed Lines....
  
  
• Viking Line
  Viking Line
  Viking Line is a Finnish shipping company that operates a fleet of ferries and cruiseferries between Finland, the Åland Islands, Sweden and Estonia. Viking Line shares are quoted on the Helsinki Stock Exchange...
  
  
• Wasa Line
  Wasa Line
  Wasa Line was a Finnish shipping company, established in 1948 and ceased trading when merged into Silja Line in 1993...
  
  

• Effoa
  Effoa
  Finland Steamship Company was a 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...
  
  
• Rederi Ab Sally
  Rederi Ab Sally
  Rederi Ab Sally was a Finnish shipping company founded in the 1937 by Algot Johansson. Originally a tanker operator, Sally became a dominant member of the Viking Line shipping consortium in the 1970s. The company met bad times in the 1980s and was bought by its rivals Effoa and Johnson Line in 1987...
  
  

France

France

The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

• Brittany Ferries
  Brittany Ferries
  Brittany Ferries is a French ferry company that runs ships between France, the UK, Ireland and Spain.-1970s and 1980s:Following the provision of the deep-water port at Roscoff, the company commenced in January 1973 at the instigation of Alexis Gourvennec, when existing ferry companies showed...
  
   (BAI Bretagne Angleterre Irlande S.A.)
• Corsica Ferries
  Corsica Ferries
  Corsica Ferries and Sardinia Ferries are marketing names used by Corsica Ferries, a France-based ferry company that operates traffic to and from the islands of Corsica and Sardinia...
  
  
• LD Lines
  LD Lines
  LD Lines is a French shipping company. It is predominantly a freight operator, with both deep-sea and ferry operations, but also operates some passenger services...
  
   (Louis Dreyfus Group
  Louis Dreyfus Group
  Louis Dreyfus Group is a diversified French private company that is involved in agriculture and energy commodities...
  
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• SNCM
  SNCM
  SNCM is a French ferry company operating in the Mediterranean.Its ferries sail from Marseille, Toulon, Nice on mainland France, Calvi, Bastia, Ajaccio, Ile Rousse, Propriano, and Porto Vecchio on Corsica, Porto Torres on Sardinia, Algiers, Oran, Skikda and Bejaia in Algeria as well as Tunis in...
  
   (Veolia Transport
  Veolia Transport
  Veolia Transport is the international transport services division of the French-based multinational company Veolia Environnement...
  
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• SeaFrance
  SeaFrance
  SeaFrance is a ferry company based in France that operates ferry services between Calais, France, and Dover, England.SeaFrance is 100% owned by the French railways, SNCF....
  
   (SNCF
  SNCF
  The SNCF , is France's national state-owned railway company. SNCF operates the country's national rail services, including the TGV, France's high-speed rail network...
  
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• Compagnie Generale Transatlantique
  Compagnie Générale Transatlantique
  The Compagnie Générale Transatlantique , typically known overseas as the French Line, was a shipping company established during 1861 as an attempt to revive the French merchant marine, the poor state of which was indicated during the Crimean War of 1856...
  
  
• Messageries Maritimes
  Messageries Maritimes
  The Messageries Maritimes is an old French maritime company. It was originally created in 1851 as Messageries Nationales, later called Messageries Impériales, and in 1871, Compagnie des Messageries Maritimes.-History:...
  
  

Germany

Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

• Blue Star Ferries
  Blue Star Ferries
  Blue Star Ferries is a brand name of Blue Star Maritime S.A. The company operates ferry services from the Greek mainland to the Aegean Islands.-History:Blue Star Ferries began operations in 1965 as Strintzis Lines...
  
   (Attica Group
  Attica Group
  Attica Holdings S.A. is an operator of international ferry services in Europe. The Group’s main operations are with its subsidiary Superfast Ferries which began in 1995 with the launch of its first ships, Superfast I & Superfast II...
  
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• Hamburg Atlantic Line
  Hamburg Atlantic Line
  Hamburg Atlantic Line was an ocean liner and cruise ship operating company established in Hamburg, West Germany in 1958 by Axel Bitsch Christensen and Vernicos Eugenides, the latter being the adopted son of Home Lines' founder Eugen Eugenides. In 1966 the company changed its name to German...
  
  
• Hanseatic Tours
• Phoenix Reisen
  Phoenix Reisen
  Phoenix Reisen is a Germany-based travel agency that also operates a fleet of cruise ships. The company first entered the cruise business in 1988 by chartering the Soviet Union-owned cruise ship .-History:...
  
  
• Superfast Ferries
  Superfast Ferries
  Superfast Ferries is a Greece-based ferry company founded in 1993 by Pericles Panagopulos and Alexander Panagopulos. Superfast Ferries is a member of Attica Group and operates 5 ultra-modern car-passenger ferries, offering daily connections between Ancona and Bari and Patras and Igoumenitsa...
  
   (Attica Group
  Attica Group
  Attica Holdings S.A. is an operator of international ferry services in Europe. The Group’s main operations are with its subsidiary Superfast Ferries which began in 1995 with the launch of its first ships, Superfast I & Superfast II...
  
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• TT-Line
  TT-Line
  TT-Line is a shipping company based in Lübeck, Germany, which has been providing a ferry service between Travemünde in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and Trelleborg in southern Sweden since 1962. From 1992 on, Rostock is also offered as starting harbor to Trelleborg...
  
  

• F. Laeisz
• Norddeutsche Lloyd "NDL"

Greece

Greece

Greece , officially the Hellenic Republic , and historically Hellas or the Republic of Greece in English, is a country in southeastern Europe....

• ANEK Lines
  ANEK Lines
  ANEK Lines is a shipping company in Greece. It was founded in 1967 by numerous shareholders who were inhabitants of Crete. It operates passenger ferries, mainly on Piraeus-Crete and Adriatic Sea lines....
  
  
• Fast Ferries
• Hellenic Seaways
  Hellenic Seaways
  Hellenic Seaways is a Greek shipping company operating passenger and freight ferry services in the Aegean and Adriatic Seas. The company is owned by Cyprus based Sea Star Capital Plc.-History:...
  
  
• Louis Hellenic Cruises
• Minoan Lines
  Minoan Lines
  Minoan Lines is one of the dominant passenger ferry companies in Greece, sailing between Piraeus and Crete and in the Adriatic Sea, between Patras and various Italian ports. The company was founded in May 1972...
  
  
• Superfast Ferries
  Superfast Ferries
  Superfast Ferries is a Greece-based ferry company founded in 1993 by Pericles Panagopulos and Alexander Panagopulos. Superfast Ferries is a member of Attica Group and operates 5 ultra-modern car-passenger ferries, offering daily connections between Ancona and Bari and Patras and Igoumenitsa...
  
  

• Chandris Lines
• Epirotiki Lines
• Greek Line
  Greek Line
  The Greek Line formally known as the General Steam Navigation Company of Greece was a passenger ship line that operated from 1939 until 1975. The Greek Line was owned by the Ormos Shipping Company. The line operated transatlantic and short to long distance voyages...
  
  

Italy

Italy

Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...

• Costa Crociere
• Grimaldi Lines
  Grimaldi Group
  The Grimaldi Group is a private shipping company owned by Guido Grimaldi and based in Livorno, Italy. Grimaldi operates a large fleet of ro-ro vessels.- Shipping :...
  
   (Grimaldi Group
  Grimaldi Group
  The Grimaldi Group is a private shipping company owned by Guido Grimaldi and based in Livorno, Italy. Grimaldi operates a large fleet of ro-ro vessels.- Shipping :...
  
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• Home Lines
  Home Lines
  Home Lines was an Italian passenger shipping company that operated both ocean liners and cruise ships. The company was founded in 1946, and it ceased operations in 1988 when merged into Holland America Line. Although based in Genoa, Homes Lines was an international company with ships registered in...
  
  
• Lauro Lines
• Moby Lines
  Moby Lines
  Moby Lines is an Italian shipping company that operates ferries and cruiseferries between the Italian or French mainland and the islands of Elba, Sardinia and Corsica. The company was founded in 1959 under the name Navigazione Arcipelago Maddalenino .In 2006 Moby Lines purchased Lloyd Sardegna...
  
  
• MSC Cruises
• SNAV
  SNAV
  SNAV is an Italian company that operates ferry services from Italy to Sardinia, Croatia and Sicily.- Routes :SNAV operates a large network of routes across the Mediterranean and Adriatic....
  
  
• Tirrenia di Navigazione
  Tirrenia di Navigazione
  Tirrenia di Navigazione is a shipping company owned by Fintecna, which operates a fleet of 23 vessels on internal Italian routes and to Albania.-History:...
  
  

• Cosulich Line
  Cosulich Line
  The Cosulich Line, formally the Cosulich Societa Triestina di Navigazione, was a steamship line that was based in Trieste, Italy. The company had been founded in 1903 as Unione Austriaca di Navigazione, more commonly called the Austro-American or Austro-Americana Line, when Trieste was under the...
  
  
• Italian Line
  Italian Line
  The Italian Line or Italia Line, also known as the Italia di Navigazione S.p.A., was a passenger shipping line that operated regular transatlantic services between Italy and the United States, and Italy and South America...
  
  

Netherlands

Netherlands

The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...

• Holland America Line
  Holland America Line
  The Holland America Line is a cruise shipping company. It was founded in 1873 as the Netherlands-America Steamship Company , a shipping and passenger line. Headquartered in Rotterdam and providing service to the Americas, it became known as Holland America Line...
  
  
• Norfolkline
  Norfolkline
  Norfolkline was a European ferry operator and logistics company owned by Maersk. It provided freight ferry services on the English channel, Irish Sea, and the North Sea; and passenger ferry services on the English channel and Irish Sea; and logistics services across Europe...
  
   (DFDS A/S, Denmark)

• Netherland Line
  Netherland Line
  The Stoomvaart Maatschappij Nederland or SMN, also known as the Netherland Line or Nederland Line, was a Dutch shipping line that operated from 1870 until 1970, when it merged with several other companies to form what would become Royal Nedlloyd...
  
   >>Stoomvaart Maatschappij Nederland

Norway

Norway

Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...

• Bergen Steamship Company
  Bergen Steamship Company
  The Bergen Steamship Company or Bergenske Dampskibsselskab , was founded in 1851 to operate a shipping service between the Norwegian ports of Bergen, Stavanger, and Kristiansand and the German port of Hamburg with the paddle steamer Bergen. The company funnel was black with three widely spaced...
  
   "Bergen", >>Bergenske Dampskibsselskab "BDS"
• Color Line
• Finnmark Fylkesrederi
  Finnmark Fylkesrederi
  Finnmark Fylkesrederi AS or FFR is a ferry and bus operator in Finnmark, Norway owned by Veolia Transport Norway. The company operates almost all public transport in the county. FFR operates 111 buses and 6 high-speed catamarans....
  
  
• Fjord1 Fylkesbaatane
  Fjord1 Fylkesbaatane
  Fjord1 Fylkesbaatane is a Norwegian transport company...
  
   (Fjord1 Nordvestlandske
  Fjord1 Nordvestlandske
  Fjord1 Nordvestlandske is a Norwegian transport conglomerate, formed in 2001 by the merger of Møre og Romsdal Fylkesbåtar and Fylkesbaatane i Sogn og Fjordane. The company itself is a holding company for its numerous subsidiaries. Company headquarters are located in Florø; however, the headquarters...
  
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• Fjord Line
  Fjord Line
  Fjord Line is a Norwegian ferry operator offering services between Norway and Denmark. In addition to passenger transport, Fjord line operates cargo transport through its cargo division in Norway and Denmark.-History:Fjord Line was founded in 1993...
  
  
• Fosen Trafikklagn
• Fred. Olsen Cruise Lines
  Fred. Olsen Cruise Lines
  Fred. Olsen Cruise Lines is a UK based, Norwegian-owned cruise shipping line with four cruise ships. The company headquarters are in Ipswich, Suffolk, United Kingdom and is owned by Bonheur and Ganger Rolf. The company is part of the Fred...
  
  
• Helgelandske
  Helgelandske
  Helgelandske is a Norwegian bus and ferry operator based in Helgeland. The company is owned by Veolia Transport Norway and operates 18 passenger- and car ferries. The company has its main office in Sandnessjøen....
  
  
• Hurtigruten
  Hurtigruten
  Hurtigruten or Hurtigruta is a Norwegian passenger and freight line with daily sailings along Norway's western and northern coast. Sometimes referred to in English as Norwegian Coastal Express, Hurtigruten ships sail almost the entire length of the country, completing the roundtrip journey in 11...
  
  
• Kystlink
  Kystlink
  Nye Kystlink AS, trading as kystlink, was a Norwegian ferry shipping company that operates between Langesund in Norway and Strömstad, Sweden and Hirtshals, Denmark. The company was wholly owned by Taubåtkompaniet, owned by Ole T. Bjørnevik, and operated one cruiseferry, MS Kongshavn...
  
  
• Namsos Trafikkselskap
  Namsos Trafikkselskap
  Namsos Trafikkselskap is a public transport company in Trøndelag, Norway. The company operates ferries, local bus services, truck transport and ambulance services...
  
  
• Norwegian Cruise Line
  Norwegian Cruise Line
  Norwegian Cruise Line is a company operating cruise ships, headquartered in unincorporated Miami-Dade County, Florida. It began operations in 1966 under the name Norwegian Caribbean Line. The company is best known for its Freestyle Cruising concept, which means that there are no set times or...
  
  
• Tide
  Tide (transportation company)
  Tide ASA is a public transport company in Hordaland, Norway which resulted from the merger of Gaia Trafikk and Hardanger Sunnhordlandske Dampskipsselskap . The company provides the public transit network in the city of Bergen, and most of the bus service in Hordaland...
  
  
• Torghatten Trafikkselskap
  Torghatten Trafikkselskap
  Torghatten ASA is a Norwegian shipping company based in Brønnøysund. The company's areas of operation include operating bus, car ferries, fast ferries, travel agencies, real estate, security and maintenance...
  
  

• Norwegian America Line
  Norwegian America Line
  Norwegian America Line , was a cruise ship line, originally an operator of passenger and cargo ships. Founded in 1910, the company ran a regular transatlantic service between Norway and the United States, and later to East Africa as well....
  
  
• Royal Viking Line
  Royal Viking Line
  The Royal Viking Line was an upmarket cruise line that operated from 1972 until 1998. The company was the brain child of Warren Titus and had its headquarters at One Embarcadero Center in San Francisco.- History :...
  
  
• Thoresen Car Ferries (Merged into P&O European Ferries, UK)

Poland

Poland

Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...

• Polferries
  Polferries
  Polferries is the largest Polish ferry operator.The Polish Baltic Shipping Company was established on 31 January 1976 as a state-owned shipping company. Under the operating name Polferries, the company runs ferry routes across the Baltic Sea between Poland and Scandinavia.In 1996 Polferries...
  
   >Polish Baltic Shipping Company >>Polska Żegluga Bałtycka “PŻB”
• Unity Line
  Unity Line
  Unity Line is a Polish company that operates RoRo and train ferry services between Świnoujście in Poland and the Swedish ports of Ystad and Trelleborg.-Routes:Unity Line operates two routes across the Baltic Sea.*Świnoujście - Ystad...
  
   (Polish Steamship Company) – FR

Spain

Spain

Spain , officially the Kingdom of Spain languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Spain's official name is as follows:;;;;;;), is a country and member state of the European Union located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula...

• Acciona Transmediterranea
• Lineas Fred. Olsen

• Compania Transatlantica Espanola
  Compañía Transatlántica Española
  Compañía Transatlántica Española , also known as Spanish Line in documents in English, is a passenger ocean line that has largely ceased operations although it still exists as a company...
  
   "Spanish Line"

United Kingdom

United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

• Caledonian MacBrayne
  Caledonian MacBrayne
  Caledonian MacBrayne is the major operator of passenger and vehicle ferries, and ferry services, between the mainland of Scotland and 22 of the major islands on Scotland's west coast...
  
  
• Cunard Line
  Cunard Line
  Cunard Line is a British-American owned shipping company based at Carnival House in Southampton, England and operated by Carnival UK. It has been a leading operator of passenger ships on the North Atlantic for over a century...
  
   (Carnival Corporation & PLC
  Carnival Corporation & plc
  Carnival Corporation & plc , is a American-British Company, and the world's largest cruise ship operator. It is a dual listed company, with headquarters at Carnival Place in the Miami suburb of Doral, Florida, USA, and at Carnival House in Southampton, England, UK...
  
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• Finnburg Switzer
• Hovertravel
  Hovertravel
  Hovertravel is a ferry company operating from Southsea, Portsmouth to Ryde, Isle of Wight, UK. They are the only company operating in Britain with passenger hovercraft, after Hoverspeed stopped using their craft in favour of catamarans...
  
  
• Isle of Man Steam Packet Company
• Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company
  Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company
  The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company, which is usually known as P&O, is a British shipping and logistics company which dated from the early 19th century. Following its sale in March 2006 to Dubai Ports World for £3.9 billion, it became a subsidiary of DP World; however, the P&O...
  
   "P&O" (DP World, UAE)
• P&O Ferries
  P&O Ferries
  P&O Ferries is the current name for the amalgamation of a range of ferry services that operated from the United Kingdom to Ireland and Continental Europe...
  
  
• Sally Line UK (Rederi Ab Sally
  Rederi Ab Sally
  Rederi Ab Sally was a Finnish shipping company founded in the 1937 by Algot Johansson. Originally a tanker operator, Sally became a dominant member of the Viking Line shipping consortium in the 1970s. The company met bad times in the 1980s and was bought by its rivals Effoa and Johnson Line in 1987...
  
  , Finland)
• Seatruck Ferries
  Seatruck Ferries
  Seatruck Ferries is a UK based freight-only ferry company which commenced services in 1996. It is part of the Clipper Group, a shipping company based in The Bahamas. The company operates out of five ports on the Irish Sea, including Heysham and Liverpool....
  
   (Clipper Group
  Clipper Group
  Clipper Group is a shipping company based in the Bahamas which owns and manages a fleet of 250 ships worldwide. In 2002 Clipper Group acquired full ownership of Irish Sea ferry operator Seatruck Ferries.-Subsidiaries:...
  
  , Bahamas)
• Swan Hellenic
  Swan Hellenic
  Swan Hellenic is a British cruise line specialising in tours of historical or cultural interest aimed at the upper end of the cruise market.-History:...
  
  
• Thomson Cruises

• Anchor Line
  Anchor Line
  The Anchor Line was a steamboat company that operated a fleet of boats on the Mississippi River between St. Louis, Missouri, and New Orleans, Louisiana, between 1859 and 1898, when it went out of business...
  
  
• Alfred Holt and Company "Blue Funnel Line"
• Blue Star Line
• Bristol City Line
  Bristol City Line
  Bristol City Line was a British shipping line based in Bristol, England that traded from 1704 until 1974. From 1760 Bristol City Line also built ships....
  
  
• British India Steam Navigation Company  "British India Line"
• British Railways ships
  British Railways ships
  British Railways operated a number of ships from its formation in 1948 on a variety of routes. Many ships were acquired on nationalisation, and others were built for operation by British Railways or its later subsidiary, Sealink. Those ships capable of carrying rail vehicles were classed under TOPS...
  
  
• City Line
  City Line
  -Sweden:* The Stockholm City Line, railway tunnel currently under construction beneath central Stockholm, Sweden-United Kingdom:* The Cardiff City Line, commuter rail route for Cardiff, Wales* The Waterloo and City Underground railway route in London, England...
  
  
• Clan Line
  Clan Line
  The Clan Line was a passenger and cargo shipping company that operated in one incarnation or another from the late nineteenth century and into the twentieth century.-Foundation and early years:...
  
  
• Court Line
  Court Line
  Court Line was a prominent British holiday charter airline during the early 1970s based at Luton Airport in Bedfordshire. It also provided bus services in Luton and surrounding areas....
  
  
• Elder Dempster Line
• Ellerman Line
• European Ferries
  European Ferries
  European Ferries Group Plc was a company that operated in passenger and freight ferries, harbour operation and property management in the United Kingdom and the United States...
  
   (Merged into P&O Ferries
  P&O Ferries
  P&O Ferries is the current name for the amalgamation of a range of ferry services that operated from the United Kingdom to Ireland and Continental Europe...
  
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• Evan Thomas Radcliffe
  Evan Thomas Radcliffe
  One of the more prosperous and best-known of Cardiff based shipowning companies was that of Messrs. Evan Thomas, Radcliffe and Company, established in 1882 by a West Wales sea captain, Evan Thomas, and a Merthyr Tydfil businessman, Henry Radcliffe...
  
  
• Fyffes Line
  Fyffes Line
  Fyffes Line was the name given to the fleet of passenger-carrying banana boats owned and operated by the UK banana importer Elders & Fyffes Limited.-History:...
  
  
• Hoverspeed
  Hoverspeed
  Hoverspeed, formed in 1981 by the merger of Seaspeed and Hoverlloyd, was a ferry company that operated on the English Channel from 1981 until 2005....
  
  
• Loch Line
  Loch Line
  The Loch Line of Glasgow was a group of ill-fated colonial clippers that belonged to Messrs William Aitken and James Lilburn. Together, they operated a line of sailing ships between the United Kingdom and Australia between 1867 and 1911.-History:...
  
  
• Manchester Liners
  Manchester Liners
  Manchester Liners was a cargo and passenger shipping company, founded in 1898, based in Manchester, England. The line pioneered the regular passage of ocean-going vessels along the Manchester Ship Canal. Its main sphere of operation was the transatlantic shipping trade, but the company also...
  
  
• New Zealand Shipping Company
  New Zealand Shipping Company
  The New Zealand Shipping Company was a shipping company whose ships ran passenger and cargo services between Great Britain and New Zealand between 1873 and 1973.-New Zealand Shipping Company:...
  
  
• Ocean Village
  Ocean Village
  Ocean Village was a British-American owned cruise line, based in Southampton, England. Designed to offer and alternative cruise experience, Ocean Village was founded by P&O Princess Cruises PLC, which later merged with Carnival Corporation to form Carnival Corporation & PLC...
  
  
• Olau Line
  Olau Line
  Olau Line was a shipping company that existed between the years 1956 and 1994. It operated a ferry service from the United Kingdom to the Netherlands from 1974 until 1994. Originally based in Denmark, the company passed under ownership of the German TT-Line in 1980.-History:Olau Line was founded in...
  
  
• Orient Steam Navigation Company
  Orient Steam Navigation Company
  The Orient Steam Navigation Company, also known as the Orient Line, was a British shipping company with roots going back to the late 18th century...
  
   "Orient Line"
• Pacific Steam Navigation Company
  Pacific Steam Navigation Company
  The Pacific Steam Navigation Company was a commercial shipping company that operated in the Pacific coast of South America, and was the first to use steam ships for commercial traffic in the Pacific Ocean.-History:...
  
  
• Palm Line
  Palm Line
  The Palm Line was a British-owned shipping line that was engaged in the West African trade from 1949, primarily servicing the ports along 5,000 miles of coastline from Morocco in the north to Angola in the far south....
  
  
• Port Line
  Port Line
  Port Line may refer to:*Port Line - a British Merchant Navy company*SR Merchant Navy Class 35027 Port Line - a preserved British steam locomotive...
  
  
• Red Star Line
  Red Star Line
  The Red Star Line was an ocean passenger line founded in 1871 as a joint venture between the International Navigation Company of Philadelphia, which also ran the American Line, and the Société Anonyme de Navigation Belgo-Américaine of Antwerp, Belgium...
  
  
• Shaw, Savill & Albion Line
• Silver Line
  Silver Line
  The Silver Line was a shipping company formed in 1908, part of the British Merchant Navy. By the 1930s they were offering round the world passenger/cargo services, with the passenger fare on a freighter £100. Entirely on foreign service, the ships did not include UK ports of call. Managing owners...
  
  
• Townsend Bros. Ferries
  European Ferries
  European Ferries Group Plc was a company that operated in passenger and freight ferries, harbour operation and property management in the United Kingdom and the United States...
  
   (Merged into P&O Ferries
  P&O Ferries
  P&O Ferries is the current name for the amalgamation of a range of ferry services that operated from the United Kingdom to Ireland and Continental Europe...
  
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• Townsend Thoresen
  European Ferries
  European Ferries Group Plc was a company that operated in passenger and freight ferries, harbour operation and property management in the United Kingdom and the United States...
  
   (Merged into P&O Ferries
  P&O Ferries
  P&O Ferries is the current name for the amalgamation of a range of ferry services that operated from the United Kingdom to Ireland and Continental Europe...
  
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• Union-Castle Line
  Union-Castle Line
  The Union-Castle Line was a prominent British shipping line that operated a fleet of passenger liners and cargo ships between Europe and Africa from 1900 to 1977. It was formed from the merger of the Union Line and Castle Shipping Line...
  
  
• White Star Line
  White Star Line
  The Oceanic Steam Navigation Company or White Star Line of Boston Packets, more commonly known as the White Star Line, was a prominent British shipping company, today most famous for its ill-fated vessel, the RMS Titanic, and the World War I loss of Titanics sister ship Britannic...
  
  

Asia

Asia

Asia is the world's largest and most populous continent, located primarily in the eastern and northern hemispheres. It covers 8.7% of the Earth's total surface area and with approximately 3.879 billion people, it hosts 60% of the world's current human population...

Japan

Japan

Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...

• A-Line Ferry - FR
• Camellia Line - FR
• Ferry Sunflower (MOL Group
  Mitsui
  is one of the largest corporate conglomerates in Japan and one of the largest publicly traded companies in the world.-History:Founded by Mitsui Takatoshi , who was the fourth son of a shopkeeper in Matsusaka, in what is now today's Mie prefecture...
  
  ) - FR
• Kampu Ferry (SHK Line Group) - FR
• Kawasaki Kinkai Kisen "Silver Ferry" (Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha) - FR
• Hankyu Ferry (SHK Line Group) - FR
• Higashi Nihon Ferry - FR
• Higashi Nihonkai Ferry - FR
• Meimon Taiyo Ferry (MOL Group
  Mitsui
  is one of the largest corporate conglomerates in Japan and one of the largest publicly traded companies in the world.-History:Founded by Mitsui Takatoshi , who was the fourth son of a shopkeeper in Matsusaka, in what is now today's Mie prefecture...
  
  ) - FR
• MOL Ferry (MOL Group
  Mitsui
  is one of the largest corporate conglomerates in Japan and one of the largest publicly traded companies in the world.-History:Founded by Mitsui Takatoshi , who was the fourth son of a shopkeeper in Matsusaka, in what is now today's Mie prefecture...
  
  ) - CR, FR
• Ocean Tokyu Ferry - FR
• Orient Ferry (SHK Line Group) - FR
• Seikan Ferry (Kita Nihon Kaiun, and Kyoei Unyu)
• Shanghai Ferry
• Shanghai Shimonoseki Ferry
• Shin Nihonkai Ferry (SHK Line Group) -FR
• Taiheiyo Ferry - FR
• Tokyo-Wan Ferry
  Tokyo-Wan Ferry
  The is Japanese car ferry operator. Its line links Yokosuka, Kanagawa and Futtsu, Chiba, across Tokyo Bay in some 40 minutes. Headquartered in Yokosuka, the company started its service from 1957. The ferry started to accept PASMO smart cards from June 2008....
  
   - FR

• Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha
  K Line
  , also referred to as "K" Line, is a very large Japanese shipping company. It owns and/or controls large cargo ships, including dry cargo ships, container ships, container terminals, gas carriers, RoRo ships and tankers....
  
   "K Line"
• Mitsui O.S.K. Lines
  Mitsui O.S.K. Lines
  is a Japanese transport company headquartered in Toranomon, Minato, Tokyo. The company's main area of operations is international shipping. Its alligator logo can be seen on containers in ports around the world....
  
   "MOL" (Mitsui Group
  Mitsui
  is one of the largest corporate conglomerates in Japan and one of the largest publicly traded companies in the world.-History:Founded by Mitsui Takatoshi , who was the fourth son of a shopkeeper in Matsusaka, in what is now today's Mie prefecture...
  
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• Nippon Yusen Kaisha
  Nippon Yusen
  Japan-based or NYK Line, is one of the largest shipping companies in the world. It is a core Mitsubishi company. The company has its headquarters in Chiyoda, Tokyo.-1870-1900:...
  
   "NYK" (Mitsubishi Group
  Mitsubishi
  The Mitsubishi Group , Mitsubishi Group of Companies, or Mitsubishi Companies is a Japanese multinational conglomerate company that consists of a range of autonomous businesses which share the Mitsubishi brand, trademark and legacy...
  
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• Diamond Ferry (MOL Group
  Mitsui
  is one of the largest corporate conglomerates in Japan and one of the largest publicly traded companies in the world.-History:Founded by Mitsui Takatoshi , who was the fourth son of a shopkeeper in Matsusaka, in what is now today's Mie prefecture...
  
  ) (Merged into Ferry Sunflower)
• Kansai Kisen (Merged into Ferry Sunflower)

North America

North America

North America is a continent wholly within the Northern Hemisphere and almost wholly within the Western Hemisphere. It is also considered a northern subcontinent of the Americas...

United States

United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

• Crystal Cruises
  Crystal Cruises
  Crystal Cruise Lines, most commonly seen as Crystal Cruises, is a Japanese luxury cruise line founded in 1988 and notable for its two medium-sized, high-end ships, Crystal Symphony and Crystal Serenity, which each hold about 1,000 guests. The line is a wholly owned subsidiary of the large Japanese...
  
   (Nippon Yusen Kaisha, Japan)
• Holland America Line
  Holland America Line
  The Holland America Line is a cruise shipping company. It was founded in 1873 as the Netherlands-America Steamship Company , a shipping and passenger line. Headquartered in Rotterdam and providing service to the Americas, it became known as Holland America Line...
  
   (Carnival Corporation & PLC
  Carnival Corporation & plc
  Carnival Corporation & plc , is a American-British Company, and the world's largest cruise ship operator. It is a dual listed company, with headquarters at Carnival Place in the Miami suburb of Doral, Florida, USA, and at Carnival House in Southampton, England, UK...
  
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• Princess Cruises
  Princess Cruises
  Princess Cruises is a British-American owned cruise line, based in Santa Clarita, California in the United States. Previously a subsidiary of P&O Princess Cruises PLC, the company is now one of ten cruise ship brands operated by Carnival Corporation & PLC and accounts for approximately 19% share...
  
   (Carnival Corporation & PLC
  Carnival Corporation & plc
  Carnival Corporation & plc , is a American-British Company, and the world's largest cruise ship operator. It is a dual listed company, with headquarters at Carnival Place in the Miami suburb of Doral, Florida, USA, and at Carnival House in Southampton, England, UK...
  
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South America

South America

South America is a continent situated in the Western Hemisphere, mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, with a relatively small portion in the Northern Hemisphere. The continent is also considered a subcontinent of the Americas. It is bordered on the west by the Pacific Ocean and on the north and east...

Oceania

Oceania

Oceania is a region centered on the islands of the tropical Pacific Ocean. Conceptions of what constitutes Oceania range from the coral atolls and volcanic islands of the South Pacific to the entire insular region between Asia and the Americas, including Australasia and the Malay Archipelago...

Australia

Australia

Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

• Madrigal Shipping Lines
  Madrigal Shipping Lines
  Madrigal Shipping Lines is a privately held company that is headquartered in St. Leonards, NSW, Australia. It is registered in the Australian Stock Exchange under BlueFreeway Limited ASX:...
  
   (BlueFreeway)
• TT-Line Company
  TT-Line (Australia)
  TT-Line Company Pty. Ltd. is a company operating ferries from Tasmania to the mainland of Australia since 1985. The company was separated from the department of Transport Tasmania in 1993, becoming a government business enterprise wholly owned by the Government of Tasmania.- 1985-1992 :TT-Line was...
  
   (Government of Tasmania
  Government of Tasmania
  The form of the Government of Tasmania is prescribed in its Constitution, which dates from 1856, although it has been amended many times since then...
  
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New Zealand

New Zealand

New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...

• Bluebridge
  Bluebridge
  Bluebridge is a New Zealand ferry operation between Wellington in the North Island and Picton in the South Island.-History:Bluebridge was formed in 2003 by Strait Shipping to compete with the Interislander...
  
   (Strait Shipping)
• Fullers Ferries
  Fullers Ferries
  Fullers Group is a ferry and tourism company in Auckland, New Zealand. It operates in the Hauraki Gulf and in 2007, transported 4.2 million passengers.- Services :Fullers run ferries from the Auckland Ferry Terminal in Quay Street, Downtown Auckland...
  
   (Fullers Group)
• Interislander Line
  Interislander
  The Interislander is a road and rail ferry service across New Zealand's Cook Strait, owned and operated by state-owned rail operator KiwiRail.The Interislander travels between Wellington in the North Island and Picton in the South Island, forming a road and rail link between New Zealand's two main...
  
   (KiwiRail
  KiwiRail
  KiwiRail Holdings Limited is the rail operations subsidiary of the New Zealand Railways Corporation, which trades as KiwiRail. Headquartered in Wellington, New Zealand, KiwiRail is the largest rail transport operator in New Zealand. Since July 2010 John Spencer has been the Chairman...
  
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• Reef Shipping
  Reef Shipping
  Reef Shipping is an ocean shipping company operating in Polynesia, especially between Asia, Australia and New Zealand and the islands. It has existed for over forty years, as of the late 2000s...
  
   (Reef Group)
• Strait Shipping
  Strait Shipping
  The New Zealand shipping firm Strait Shipping Limited operates between the North Island and the South Island ....
  
  
• Union Steam Ship Company
  Union Company
  The Union Company, Union Steam Ship Company , or Union Line was started in Dunedin, New Zealand, in 1875, when it was floated by James Mills, who had been clerk to Johnny Jones and his Harbour Steam Company....
  
   (P&O Line, UK)

Africa

Africa

Africa is the world's second largest and second most populous continent, after Asia. At about 30.2 million km² including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of the Earth's total surface area and 20.4% of the total land area...

Tunisia

Tunisia

Tunisia , officially the Tunisian RepublicThe long name of Tunisia in other languages used in the country is: , is the northernmost country in Africa. It is a Maghreb country and is bordered by Algeria to the west, Libya to the southeast, and the Mediterranean Sea to the north and east. Its area...

• Compagnie Tunisienne de Navigation
  Compagnie tunisienne de navigation
  The Compagnie tunisienne de navigation is a Tunisian shipping line, providing regular passenger ferry connections between Tunisia and the ports of Marseille and Genoa, as well as freight transport to Barcelona and Livorno....