The foundations to today’s Stena Sphere were laid on 18 November 1939 when the Sten A. Olsson Metallprodukter trading company was founded.
In 1946, Sten Allan Olsson bought his first vessel with a loan of SEK 25,000 from Handelsbanken, and the shipping business started on a small scale.
At the beginning of the 1960s a ferry service started between Gothenburg and Skagen in northern Denmark.
The business continued to expand and at the end of the 1970s major investments were made in offshore and RoRo vessels.
By founding Stena Adactum at the beginning of the 2000s (decade) the Sphere was expanded to also include long-term investments in outlying business areas.
The Stena sphere has made a profit every year since 1939 and has grown to include the largest ferry company in the world.
[4] It has operations in Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland, Poland, Germany, Italy and the United States of America.