Thingvalla Line

Thingvalla line was a shipping company founded by Danish financier, industrialist and philanthropist Carl Frederik Tietgen in 1879 in Copenhagen, Denmark.

It maintained a route between Copenhagen and New York City calling at Kristiania (present day Oslo) and Kristiansand on the way.

[1] Thingvalla Line was one of several large companies which were established at the initiative of Carl Frederik Tietgen.

[2] The new company established a ferry terminal at Larsens Plads on the Copenhagen harbourfront, a site which had been a combined shipyard and lumberyard until 1870.

In favour of the new company, apart from the obvious advantage of providing a direct route, were their Scandinavian crews and a more homogeneous composition of passengers.