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» This article is about a ferry operator, for the civil rights issue see Color-line.
Color Line AS is the largest
cruiseferry liner operating on routes to and from
Norway. The company is also one of the leading operators in
Europe. Color Line provides transportation for
people and
cargo,
hotel accommodation,
shopping, restaurants and
entertainment. The company currently employs 3500 people in four countries.
Color Line main office is in
Oslo, but the company also have offices in
Bergen,
Stavanger,
Kristiansand,
Sandefjord and
Larvik in addition to international offices in
Kiel,
Fredrikshavn,
Hirtshals and
Strömstad.
History
Color Line has roots in the ferry business that go back more than 100 years. The company was established in 1990 when two
Norwegian shipping companies,
Jahre Line and
Norway Line merged. Jahre Line had operated ferries between
Oslo and
Kiel since 1961, while Norway Line had operated ferries from Norway to the
United Kingdom and the
Netherlands since 1986. During 1990 Color Line also took over the
Fred. Olsen Lines cruiseferry operations,
During the first half of the 1990s Color Line enlargened their tonnage by lengthening their existing ships and replacing older small ships by acquisition of larger second-hand ships. The company begun operating fast ferries between Norway and Denmark during the summer of 1996. Initially the operations were in collaboration with
SeaContainers, but were run without them from 1997 onwards. In October of the same year Color Line took over the operations of
Larvik Line, their competitor in the Norway—Denmark traffic. In September 1998 Color Line acquired both the
Color Hotel Skagen and
Scandi Line, which operated two ferries on the short routes connecting Norway and Sweden. In the end of 1998 the Norway—United Kingdom operations were sold to
Fjord Line. For the 1999 summer season the (former) Scandi Line ships received new Color Scandi Line liveries. They were fully incorporated into the Color Line fleet in 2001.
During the 2000s Color Line begun investing heavily in new tonnage, with,, and supplanting much of the older tonnage between 2004 and 2008. In April 2008 the company announced the closure of the
Oslo—
Hirtshals service from
6 May 2008 onwards.
Ships and routes
According to the Finnish newspaper
Turun Sanomat, Color Line and Aker Finnyards are developing a design for a
cruise ship based on the
Color Fantasy -class, for possible delivery in 2010.
Former ships
Key People
- Trond Kleivdal, Managing Director
- Elisabeth Anspach, Marketing Director
- Helge Otto Mathisen, Information Director
- Svein Sørensen, Technical Director
- Jan Kverneland, E-business Director
- Rolf Kjær, Project Director
- Knut Hals, Route Director Oslo-Hirtshals and Oslo-Kiel
- Terje Marcussen, Route Director Kristiandsand-Hirtshals
- Laila Valdal, Route Director Larvik-Fredrikshavn and Sandefjord-Strömstad
Gallery
Image:MS Peter Wessel i Larviksfjorden.jpg|MS Peter Wessel in the Larviksfjord
Image:MS Peter Wessel til kai i Larvik.jpg|MS Peter Wessel in Larvik
Image:KielerFaehrenLuftaufnahme.jpg|MS Color Fantasy in Kiel from the air
Image:MS_Color_Fantasy_outbound_at_Horten.jpg|MS Color Fantasy in the Oslofjord
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