TT-Line GmbH & Co. KG

Company profile

Awards for competitive services and environmentally-friendly ship concepts: For more than 50 years TT-Line and its innovative and modern fleet has set standards in the ferry sector.

Reliable, high-quality and environmentally-friendly transport solutions for passengers and freight – these are the principles along which the private shipping group TT-Line has been operating its the direct ferry traffic between Germany and Sweden since 1962; this has meant that TT-Line has assumed a leading role in the development and realisation of logistical, tourist-based and technical innovations in the ferry traffic on the Baltic Sea.

Under both the German and Swedish flags, TT-Line has a fleet of six modern ferries of which 83.5% is held by the company Holding Trampschiffahrt GmbH & Co. KG and 16.5% by the shipping company Aug. Bolten Wm. Miller's Nachfolger GmbH & Co. KG.

Every year the ships carry around 600,000 passengers and 320,000 freight units. Every day there are up to 14 trips between Travemünde or Rostock and Trelleborg available making this shipping company the market leader in the passenger and freight traffic between Germany and Sweden.

On the search for even more environmentally-friendly shipping methods, TT-Line has become one of the pioneers in the sector with regard to the carefully handling of natural resources and the reduction of emissions. The construction of the "Green Ships" Nils Dacke and Robin Hood in 1995 was the first step toward environmentally-compatible shipping operations. Both ferries have environmentally-friendly diesel-electrical engines as do the two ferries, Nils Holgersson and Peter Pan, that were constructed in 2001. The entire TT-Line fleet uses low-sulphur fuel. In 2008 TT-Line introduced the "Green Bridge Concept" which further reduced the emission of pollutants. In the future TT-Line will continue to develop innovative ship technologies that meet the needs of the market and those of the environment.

The company has won several awards for its commitment to technology and the environment: In 2000 the Swedish transport economy declared TT-Line to be the "Transport Company of the Year". One year later the information service "ShipPax-Information" nominated the shipping company for the pioneering "Ro-Pax Technology Award" for the first Ro-Pax ferry with a podded drive; this drive system makes ships more manoeuvrable and helps save fuel. In 2002 the Swedish government bestowed the "Lucia Prize" onto the company and in 2003 it was the winner of the "Innovation Prize" from the Swedish Society of Transportation Companies.