The transition to battery power is reducing ForSea’s emissions and attracting a lot of attention. At the same time, sustainability work is now being done throughout the entire company and directed at everything from energy-savings and waste-management to certified raw ingredients and social responsibility.   

Throughout Q1, ForSea has operated the world’s largest battery-powered passenger ferries, Aurora and Tycho Brahe, on the Helsingborg-Helsingør route. The environmental benefits have been significant: The ferry operator’s total emissions of CO₂ and harmful particles have been halved compared to the prior year.

In Q4 2018, ForSea inaugurated the two ferries Aurora and Tycho Brahe as the World’s largest battery-powered passenger ferries. Simultaneously, the ForSea brand was launched, and the introduction of battery-powered combined with the name change contributed significantly to an increase in the number of leisure passengers in the quarter. While the number of transported cars declined moderately, the strong growth in the number of transported trucks continued.

Freight traffic volumes continued to grow in Q3 2018 on Scandlines Helsingborg-Helsingör, which accounted for the largest share of growth in freight traffic on Öresund this quarter as well. While the number of transported passengers and cars declined, due to the unusually warm summer among other things, the ferries’ precision and capacity utilisation remained high.