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x. internal communications.
traffic on this route, which is of lesser proportions than that on the other
two, is maintained exclusively by Danish ferrysteamers, so that it must
be considered as a foreign means of communication.
The traffic by the steam railway-ferry Malmö—Copenhagen, which
was opened in October, 1895, was at first kept up by Danish vessels alone.
Since August, 1900, however, a Swedish ferry-steamer, the Malmö, runs
alternately with the Danish boat.
The Steam Ferry-boat, "Drottning Victoria". (Sassnitz—Trälleborg.)
The steam-ferry-boat "Malmö" was built at Kockum’s Mechanical Workshop,
Malmö. It is 82 meters long, and 16 meters beam, and has a draught of 3’2
meters. It is of 1 514 tons displacement, and the engines develop 1 850 h. p,
the maximum speed being nearly 14 knots. The greatest number of passengers
the vessel is allowed to carry is 850.
By this route there were conveyed during 1913 a total of 68 907 passengers
to or from Sweden; the total number of trips was 3 334, of which the Swedish
vessel made 1 704. There, were exported 191 803 tons of freight from
Sweden, and 43 166 were imported by this route.
The steam-ferry route Trälleborg—Sassnitz, Sweden’s most important
and quickest means of communication with the continent, was established
as the result of an agreement made between Sweden and Prussia, on
November 15, 1907, and was opened eighteen months later, on July 7, 1909.
The traffic on this line is managed in accordance with an agreement
between the Swedish State Railways Board and the Prussian Railways
Board in Stettin, whereby each of these authorities engaged themselves
to convey passengers and carriages once a day regularly in each direction,
and, in addition to this, to take turns in carrying out all necessary
transport. Two Swedish and two German steam-ferries run daily over the
route, which is 107 km long.
On the part of Sweden, the traffic is kept up by the steam-ferry boats,
"Konung Gustav V", which has a draught of 3 062 tons gross, and "Drottning
Victoria", of 3 074 tons gross. The greatest number of passengers that each
boat may carry is 1 800.
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