Rederi AB Svea

Stockholms Rederi AB Svea ( Stockholms Rederi AB Sveabolaget, often only Svea or Rederi AB Svea called ) was a Swedish shipping company, which was founded in the 1870s. She has worked with a wide range of vessels for cargo and passenger transport, mainly with connections in the Baltic and the North Sea and was one of Sweden's largest shipping companies of its time. The Stockholms Rederi AB Svea was one of the founders of the Silja Line and led their ships under the name of Skandinavisk Linjetrafik, Scandinavian Ferry Lines, Linjebuss and Traveline.

The company had a Finnish subsidiary ( Oy Svea AB) and a subsidiary based in the Netherlands. 1981 was the Rederi AB Svea over in the Johnson Line, but remained as an independent brand.

History

Stockholms Rederi AB Svea was founded in the 1870s, the first ship was put into service in 1872. Most of the early ships were cargo steamer, which were used in the global tramp shipping. Following Sveabolaget started with the freight and passenger transport along the Swedish coast and in the Baltic Sea. 1918 began working with the Finland Steamship Company and Steamship Company Bore on the routes between Sweden and Finland. In the 1930s, followed by a strong expansion of Svea, the fleet increased to more than 100 ships.

After the Second World War, the Svea began with the operation of freight connections from Southern Sweden to Denmark and Germany under the banner of Traveline, Skandinavisk Linjetrafik and Linjebuss. At the same time, the Svea began with the operation of larger freighters. One of the first modern automobile freighter was delivered in the 1960s to the Svea. In 1966 Svea began working at a car and passenger connection to the UK, with the Swedish Lloyd and Ellerman 's Wilson Line. Back in 1969 sparked Svea on cooperation and sold his single ship on this connection, the motor ship Svea, the Swedish Lloyd.

In the 1970s, broke on hard times for the Svea. Even towards the end of the 1960s, in 1916 acquired shipyard Finnboda had been sold to the Salen shipping company. In 1975, 50% of the Svea shares were sold to Rederi AB Nordstjernan (parent company of Johnson Line). From then on, the activities of the Svea been greatly streamlined. 1976 Traveline was sold to the railroad freight company Statens Järnvägar, and from this arose the Saga line. Big changes came in 1980 for the small freight area of ​​Linjebuss, they were merged with lines of Swedish Railways and the Danish company Scandinavian Ferry Lines. In the same year the merger of TT-Line began with the Saga line, from which the TT- Saga Line was born. As a result of financial difficulties Svea sold his shares in 1981 at the TT- Saga Line and the Scandinavian Ferry Lines. End of the year it was even sold to the Johnson Line. The Johnson Line was in 1990 together with the Effoa and is since then under the name EffJohn.