Smyril Line

Smyril Line is a Faroese shipping company, linking the Faroe Islands with Denmark, Iceland, the Netherlands and Lithuania.

Since 1983, the company has operated a regular international passenger, car and freight service using MS Norröna, a multi-purpose ferry built in Lübeck, Germany in 2003.

The cost (about 100 million Euro) of building MS Norröna presented Smyril with financial difficulties, and public support had to guarantee the Faroese ship.

As of 2022[update], the passenger service is halted between the Faroe Islands and Iceland during winter time, between mid-November and mid-March.

[12] Smyril Line Cargo operates a fleet of five RoRo vessels: Eystnes, Hvítanes, Akranes, Mykines and Glyvursnes.

Built at the Norwegian UMOE Sterkoder shipyard in 1996, it was previously operated as Auto Baltic for Bore shipping company in Finland.

The old Norröna in Tórshavn Harbour, 1997
MS Norröna , March 2013