Finland Steamship Company

Effoa was a Finnish shipping company. It was founded in 1883 by Captain Lars Krogius under the name Finska Ångfartygs Aktiebolaget ( Swedish, abbreviated FAA ) and Suomen Höyrylaiva Osakeyhtioe ( Finnish, abbreviated SHO ) established to Finnish German steamship corporation. Since the company was best known under its Swedish acronym FAA, it was renamed Effoa 1976, a phonetic spelling of the abbreviation.

The company was a founding member of the Consortium of Silja Line. In 1975, the FAA along with Finn Lines the joint venture cargo company Finncarriers. At the same time, the FAA issued to the passenger traffic between Finland and Germany and sold the used on this route ships to Finn Lines. In the 1980s Finncarriers and Finn Lines wholly owned subsidiaries of Effoa were. 1989 Effoa decided to abandon the cargo business, and Effoas shares in Finnlines were transferred to the owners of Effoa. Effoa presented the business as an independent company 1990, when her cargo business was spun off into an independent Finnlines, while the passenger business with the Johnson Line (then the other partner of the Silja Line) merged to form the new company EffJohn, which later Tallink Silja Oy which emerged.

1945, the FAA, the first shipping company after the Second World War, which started passenger traffic between Helsinki and Stockholm again, what the ship Wellamo was used. With the Wellamo also the passenger traffic between Helsinki and Tallinn was resumed, which was done in 1965.

Ships ( selection)

  • Arcturus ( 1899-1957 ). Mainly used on the route from Hanko via Copenhagen to Hull.
  • Wellamo (1927-1967)
  • Aallotar ( 1952-1970 ). 1975 and on a piece of the fuselage, which has since serves as barge, scrapped.
  • Ilmatar ( 1964-1980 ). Later, cruise and casino ship. 2011 scrapped.
  • Finlandia ( 1967-1976 ). Later, cruise and casino ship. 2009 scrapped.
  • Aallotar ( 1972-1978 ). First ship for year-round passenger traffic between Helsinki and Stockholm. 2004 scrapped.
  • Finlandia ( 1981-1990 ). Today, under the name Princess Mary at the Russian St. Peter Line.
  • Finnjet (1986-1990). Built in 1977, acquired by Enso -Gutzeit, fastest conventional ferry in the world. 2008-2009 scrapped.
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