Pre-tax profit for the whole of 2016 totalled NOK 6m compared with a NOK 231m loss the previous year. Revenues increased from NOK 903m to NOK 1.2bn.

Managing director Rickard Ternblom says the company is “happy to deliver such a good result after some tough investment years and judicial fights in 2014 and 2015”.

The Norwegian outfit owns four modern ferries and operates three international routes between Norway and Denmark, and Norway and Sweden, in addition to a recently established domestic route between Bergen and Stavanger.

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