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The White Fleet Ltd. is a shipping company company located in Stralsund, the passenger and car ferry traffic and excursions especially along the Baltic coast of Mecklenburg -Western Pomerania as well as on behalf of the Berlin Transport Services ( BVG) ferry service in Berlin offers. The White Fleet GmbH is a subsidiary of the shipping company Fjord cruise industry (FRS ) in Flensburg.
History
After the Second World War, the Marine was established in 1945, initially under the name " Association inland waterway public corporation " with its headquarters in Berlin in a modest extent resumed by private shipowners. On October 27, 1949, the state enterprise " German shipping and handling operations headquarters " was created (DSU ) with the main office in Stralsund. This company, the entire freight transport, including passenger transport on inland waterways in the GDR was transferred.
Established on 1 January 1957, the VEB Fahrgastschiffahrt Stralsund " White Fleet " based in Stralsund should take over the majority of the trip and scheduled services along the entire Baltic Sea coast. With first eleven employees and 17 other employees and ten motor vessels, which offered courses in 1511, this company worked in the first year.
Over the years branches were established along the Baltic coast, the ships were modernized and increased the staff. The former lines and excursions included, among other things, trips to Gedser, Fehmarn and Møn, tours around Rügen and Hiddensee, ocean crossings and harbor cruises. After extensive upgrades to the ships of the " White Fleet " 1958/59 and the recording of ferry traffic after Altefaehr, eg with the Stralsund, number of vessels in early 1959 grew to 17 ships with a total of 2488 passenger seats. Three years later, the portfolio grew to passenger ships with the acquisition of the cooperative Reederei GmbH Hiddensee Vitte to 23. Now a total of 3251 seats were available. 1961 came from Roßlau at the same two hydrofoils TF 10-1 and 10-2 TF for " White Fleet " which were used on the Unterwarnow between Rostock and Warnemünde Kabutzenhof. The end of 1963 drove 36 passenger ships with 4740 seats and two freighter on a total of 44 lines of the "White Fleet".
In 1974, the " White Fleet " through the purchase of three hydrofoils was further modernized type Kometa -M. The in the USSR at the shipyard Poti ( Grusinische SSR) boats built were for fast traffic on the line Stralsund - determined Wismar - Sassnitz - Szczecin and Rostock. With a speed of 32 knots (60 km / h) needed these boats eg for the route Stralsund - Sassnitz - Swinoujscie, about four hours and were so much faster than the slower ships seaside resorts.
With a fleet of three hydrofoils, 31 passenger ships, seven ferries, two freighters and a Fährschubeinheit for heavy transports the " White Fleet " 4.7 million passengers transported in 1989 to 85 routes.
In 1990, the " White Fleet " was privatized by the shipping company and shipping company Fjord composite Seetouristik (FRS ) from Flensburg taken. The traditional name " White Fleet " remained unchanged. All the old ships were sold and replaced with new, more modern and more comfortable ships.
The President of the district of Rügen, Gesine Skrepski, opened in 1994, the new investors for the Wittower ferry.
In 1995, the shipping company Hiddensee was founded as a subsidiary of the White Fleet. The shipping company Hiddensee operates the entire line of traffic Zingst, Wiek, Stralsund and Schaprode towards Hiddensee. Through the establishment of the shipping company Hiddensee the area of responsibility of the "White Fleet" shifted to the ferry ( about the Strela Sound: Glewitz - Stahlbrode, about the new power in Rostock Warnemünde - High Dune and Wittower ferry on Rügen) and boat trips on the Baltic Sea.
Was through investment in the construction of passenger ships the fleet to numerous Bodden cruiser (MS " Hiddensee " MS " yells ," MS " Schaprode " MS " Stralsund " ) extended, also were two taxi boats for the transport of each up to 20 persons brought for quick transport between the mainland, the island of Rügen and Hiddensee used.
A new modernization and expansion of the fleet was made in 1996. The " White Fleet " presented a passenger ship for the port of Stralsund with the name Altefaehr for the ferry Stralsund - Altefaehr, harbor cruises and charter trips and the most modern ocean-going catamaran service in Germany. The catamaran was named Hansa Jet. With this new building, the opportunity arose to go to Denmark, Usedom, Poland and Fehmarn. In 1997 another offshore catamaran added with the name Baltic Jet. In addition, the car-ferry Schmarl was this year - Oldendorf on the Unterwarnow in Rostock taken as part of the local public transport services within the transport association Warnow in operation.
With the Flying Eagle Line White Fleet, a joint venture was established in 1998, the excursion rides on the route Sassnitz - offered Swinoujscie. After the expiry of the duty-free arrangements when traveling within the EU in July 1999, the catamaran "Baltic Jet " continued no longer on the route Warnemünde - Gedser, but from Warnemünde to Copenhagen.
2000, the two passenger ships and yells Schaprode were rebuilt and extended it to eight meters. In addition, received the MS Schaprode a more upscale amenities. In 2000, the MS Hanseatic city of Stralsund was the shipping company Hiddensee by ADAC with the test result "very good" rating under 30 tested lines within Germany. In 2003, the passenger ship Altefaehr was also rebuilt and thereby extended by six meters and increased the engine power of 100 kW to 289 kW. This may be transported 36 other people.
On January 1, 2014 ( or start of the season with 2014) added the operation to ferry lines F11, F12, F21 and F23 in Berlin on behalf of the Berlin Transport Authority ( BVG). The traffic had been previously announced, after the expired contracts with the Altbetreiber.
Ships / lines
The " White Fleet " operates several car and passenger ferries along the Baltic coast of Mecklenburg -Vorpommern.
Car Ferries
- Car ferry in Rostock Warnemünde - High Dune
- Car ferry across the Strela Sound: Stahlbrode - Glewitz
- Car ferry: Wittow North - South Wittow (Rügen)
Passenger ferries
- Passenger ferry: Stralsund - Altefaehr
- Passenger ferry: F11 Berlin, Wilhelm beach - Berlin, Baumschulenstraße (on behalf of the Berlin Transport Authority ( BVG) )
- Passenger ferry: F12 Berlin, Müggelbergallee - Berlin, Wassersportallee (on behalf of the Berlin Transport Authority ( BVG) )
- Passenger ferry: F21 Berlin, Kramp Castle - Large Krampe - Berlin, to Lake View ( on behalf of the Berlin Transport Services ( BVG) )
- Passenger ferry: F23 Berlin, Müggelwerderweg - Mueggelhort - New Helgoland - Berlin, Kruggasse (on behalf of the Berlin Transport Authority ( BVG) )