Polferries

Polferries

Founded	1976
Headquarters	Kołobrzeg, Poland
Area served	Poland, Sweden, Denmark
Services	Passenger transportation, Freight transportation
Website	www.polferries.pl

Polferries is the largest Polish ferry operator. The Polish Baltic Shipping Company was established on 31 January 1976 as a state-owned shipping company. Under the operating name Polferries, the company runs ferry routes across the Baltic Sea between Poland and Scandinavia.

In 1996 Polferries approved quality assurance system the International Safety Management Code (ISM). In May 1997 the company was recognised as meeting the requirements of the Quality Management Certificate ISO 9002. It became legally recognised as a corporate body in 1992.

Until 2001, Polferries had owned two ferry terminals in Poland, the Ferry Terminal in Gdańsk and the Ferry Terminal in Świnoujście. Today, the company runs the Ferry Terminal in Gdańsk.

Fleet

Current fleet

• Baltivia - Nynäshamn — Gdańsk
• Wawel - Ystad — Świnoujście

Future Fleet and Future Arrangements

• Baltivia - Ystad-Świnoujście
• Wawel - Nynäshamn-Gdańsk
• Mazovia - Ystad-Świnoujście
• Scandinavia - Sold to Ventourius Ferries, to become Rigel II in May 2015

Former fleet

• HSC Boomerang (built in Australia, 1997) — 1997–2001 — now HSC Tallink AutoExpress 2 with Conferry.
• MF Drottningen (built in Sweden in 1968) — 1975–1976 — scrapped in China in 2005.
• MF Gute (built in Sweden, 1979) — 2000 — laid up.
• MF Kahleberg (built in Germany, 1983) — 2003–2004 — now MF RG 1 with RG Line.
• MF Lancut (built in Germany, 1967) — 1985–1994 — scrapped in India in 2003.
• MF Nieborow (built in Germany, 1973) — 1988–2002 — now MF Sveti Stefan II with Montenegro Lines.
• MF Parsęta — 1991–1997 — scrapped.
• MF Silesia (built in Poland, 1979) — 1979–2005 — now MF Yuzhnaya Palmyra with Iscomar.
• MF Wawel (built in Germany, 1965) — 1973–1988 — scrapped in Turkey in 2004.
• MS Pomerania (built in Poland, 1978) — 1978–2010 — later Dalmatia with Blue Line International — scrapped in India in 2014.^[1]
• MS Rogalin (built in France, 1972) — 1978–1987, 1989–1991, 1992–2003 — scrapped in India in 2004.

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  "Scandinavia" in Gdańsk
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  "Pomerania"
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  "MF Wawel" docked in the Harbor of Świnoujście

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Polferries.

• Polferries official website
• "Polferries at Fakta om Fartyg" (in Swedish). Archived from the original on 2012-05-26. 

Ferry operators of Denmark
Denmark	Major DFDS DFDS Seaways Scandlines Regional BornholmerFærgen Mols-Linien Minor Clipper Group Danske Færger Sundbusserne Ø-Færgen Ærøfærgerne
Overseas constituencies	Faroe Islands Smyril Line • Strandfaraskip Landsins Greenland Arctic Umiaq Line • Diskoline
See also: Islands of Denmark • Unity of the Realm