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Company based in Estonia
Estline
Founded
1989
Defunct
2001
Fate
Bankruptcy (2001)
Headquarters
Tallinn, Estonia
Area served
Baltic Sea
Services
Passenger transportation Freight transportation
Parent
Estonian Shipping Company
Website
www.estline.ee
Estline (sometimes spelled EstLine) was a Swedish-Estonian shipping company, owned jointly by Nordström & Thulin and the Estonian Government via Estonian Shipping Company (ESCO).[1] Estline was founded in 1989, and had a 10 year exclusive right to the passenger traffic between Stockholm, Sweden and Tallinn, Estonia. On 28 September 1994, the flagship of the company, MS Estonia, sank in an autumn storm. In 1998, Nordström & Thulin left the joint venture, making Estline a fully owned Estonian shipping company.[2] By the end of 2000, Estline's ships were chartered by Tallink. Estline was officially declared bankrupt in the middle of year 2001.[3]
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^"Merelaevandus ostab E-Liini". 24 January 1998. Retrieved 12 March 2024.
^"Virolainen Estline-varustamo konkurssiin" (in Finnish). Kauppalehti. Archived from the original on 2008-04-22. Retrieved 2008-01-28.
Estline (sometimes spelled EstLine) was a Swedish-Estonian shipping company, owned jointly by Nordström & Thulin and the Estonian Government via Estonian...
EffJohn) until 1993, when she was sold to Nordström & Thulin for use on Estline's Tallinn–Stockholm route. The ship's sinking on 28 September 1994, in the...
company's fleet. Later in the same year Inreko purchased MS Nord Estonia from EstLine (a daughter company of ESCO and the Swedish Nordström & Thulin), renamed...
from Estline leaving ESCO as the sole owner of the company. ESCO later changed its name to Hansatee Shipping. At the end of 2000 the name Estline was abandoned...
At the time N&T also owned 50% of EstLine, but the company decided not to transfer the Nord Gotlandia to EstLine. Instead she was sold to Eckerö Line...
service between Tallinn and Stockholm under colours of their subsidiary EstLine. In 1993 the Nord Estonia was supplanted by larger tonnage (the ill-fated...
ESCO was also a co-founder, and for a time the sole owner, of Tallink and Estline. The company was deleted from the business register due to the end of bankruptcy...
her Vironia with the intention of putting her into service within the EstLine service between Stockholm and Tallinn together with her former Viking Line...
on 28 May 1997. Between June and August 1997, Bolero was chartered by Estline and employed on the Stockholm–Tallinn route. In September 1997 she was...
Regina Denmark Ferry Sold to Nordström & Thulin Renamed Nord Estonia for EstLine traffic 18 October Stena Line (Canada) Crown Princess Victoria Sweden...
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