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Stena Line Freight

About Stena Line Freight
Stena Line Freight is a main business area within the Stena Line Group. It is responsible for developing, marketing and selling the freight services of Stena Line. Their pan-European freight ferry network of 34 freight-carrying vessels and eighteen routes makes it Europe's most successful sea freight operation. During 2004 Stena Line Freight handled 1,406,000 freight units and employed a workforce of 110. The turnover for the year was 3.545 MSEK.

What do Stena Line Freight do?
Stena Line book and move freight units on their route network. In addition they complement the core activity with a range of value services unique in the European ferry industry. These services include a one number phone booking service that enables customers to reserve space on all Stena Line routes just by calling one number. Modern IT has created new and efficient working methods and Stena Line Freight offer the following solutions so that their customers can benefit from these advances in managing transport related information; Internet-based services (Extranet), Stena Connect and EDI (Electronic Data Interchange) invoicing and booking. The Stena Line website is a valuable working tool and source of information. You can find their live timetables and updates about what is happening on their different routes.

The website also features an Extranet that provides registered users, with many cost-cutting services; real-time Internet booking and "Track and Trace", as well as their Statistics Warehouse which offers you the chance to view your shipment volumes at a glance, under password-protected access. Stena Connect is a customer-adapted version of Stena Line Freight's own booking system. It is easy to install and user-friendly, it gives you 24-hour online access to Stena Line Freight's booking system for all sailings within their network. Services include Electronic Data Interchange, a system that allows the quick and secure transfer of data for booking and invoicing between Stena Line Freight and its customers. HSS high-speed service vessels provide ultra quick crossings on key routes and are a big hit with their freight customers, who have access to a pan-European network of Stena Line Freight offices. They are staffed by skilled personnel, each office provides booking and customer support services.

The Stena Line Freight Route Network
Their freight's network coupled with Scandlines amounts to 18 routes to and from Ireland, Northern Ireland, England, Wales, Scotland, Holland, Germany, Sweden, Denmark, Norway and Poland. Stena Line currently operates 14 routes, Scandlines AB four routes, (Helsingborg-Helsingör, Trelleborg-Travemünde, Trelleborg-Sassnitz, Trelleborg-Rostock)

Stena Line Development in 2004
During the last couple of years Stean have seen major developments at in their Freight. The route network has been strengthened, the fleet has been enlarged and modernised. And customer support services have been refined and extended. These improvements represent a major investment in Europe's freight transportation infrastructure.

Stena Line Freight