Great Belt ferries

The ferry services ceased operating with the opening of the Great Belt Fixed Link, which occurred in 1997 for rail and 1998 for car traffic.

[4][5] DSB responded by getting authorisation to buy a car ferry of their own, but eventually made a settlement with the motorists and took over Heimdal before it entered service in 1930.

[6] Car traffic increased explosively in the post-war years, leading to severe capacity problems on the ferry services.

on 14 June 1998, fifteen minutes after the Great Belt Fixed Link was opened for regular traffic.

M/F Kong Frederik IX was preserved as a museum in Nyborg from 1997 to 2001,[9] but scrapped[10] in 2005 despite continued efforts to save it.