SL ferries

With its length of 115 meters, she is still the record holder of all car ferries that has been in service on Øresund [4][5] But the 1973, the energy crisis made oil as well as petrol more expensive.

Trave Line had operated on the long distance route from Helsingborg or Copenhagen (Port of Tuborg) to Travemünde, Schleswig Holstein, Western Germany since 1966.

[6] Soon afterwards rumours about closing down also the SL ferries proved to be wrong, however, the Stockholm headquarters decided by time to move the shipping lines Swedish harbour to Malmö as of 1 October 1980.

[7] This was hardly the best of decisions, as the route got notably longer, and the shipping line now had to compete with the well-established ferries between Limhamn (a southern borough of Malmö with a harbour of its own) and Dragør, Amager, Denmark (a smaller town just south of Copenhagen Airport) a route with a crossing time of only 50 minutes, as well (regarding pedestrian passengers) with the hydrofoil speedboats to Copenhagen.

After only eight months on the new route, the owners Stockholms Rederi AB Svea threw in the towel and the history of the SL ferries ended in 1981.