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The HH Ferry route (''About the name:'' Helsingør - Helsinborg; Helsingør is ''Danish'' for Elsinore) is one of the world's busiest international car ferry routes. The short itinerary goes between Elsinore ( ''Helsingør'') at Zealand, Denmark and Helsingborg, Scania, Sweden across the northern, and narrowest part of Øresund. The route is currently served by car ferry shipping line Scandlines and a smaller passenger shipping line known as Sundbusserne〔http://sundbusserne.se/〕 ("The Sound Buses"). Scandlines' ferries operate more than 70 daily departures from each harbour, every 15 minutes for most of the day, and also every 12 minutes during the peak summer weeks by the use of an extra ferry.〔Note! Scandlines have several shipping routes, look at "Helsingør-Helsingborg" at http://www.scandlines.com/tickets-und-tarife/tickets-and-prices.aspx〕 As the distance between Denmark and Sweden here only is around 2.5 nautical miles (approx. 4 km), the crossing time is just 20 minutes.〔same, Scandlines〕 While Sundbusserne, currently (as of January 2015) departs every hour with their only "bus".〔http://sundbusserne.se/fartplan-priser.html〕 Scandlines uses four ferries, ''MF Tycho Brahe'', ''MS Aurora'', ''MF Hamlet'' and ''MF Mercandia IV''〔Bottom of the complete timetable; PDF http://www.scandlines.dk/~/media/Scandlines/ScandlinesDk/Docs/Tidtabell-HH-sep-dec-2014.ashx〕 Also ''M/F Mercandia VIII'' is available and used when some of the other ferries are at annual service as well as during the July peek weeks.〔The vessel in question is usually located at "the Ocean port" of Helsingborg harbour, it's painted in Scandlines colours〕 The three first mentioned ferries are sister ships and are especially built for this short route. They use dual commanding bridges and lack natural prows and sterns (nor starboard and port side) and hence never need to turn. Aurora, Hamlet and Tycho Brahe are also built rather low (above sea level) and very wide. Also the Mercandia IV and Mercandia VIII sister ships, but they are not especially built for this perticular route. They are vessels of so-called Superflex type, and has one bridge only. But as this is located in the middle of the ship, they as well don't need to turn in the harbours. Although Mercandia IV and Mercandia VIII look very different from the other three ferries, all five ferries fit within the same principal standard, which allows fastest possible return time. Since the crossing takes 20 minutes, and the vessels only need 10 minutes in port, the same ferry usually is able to depart from either harbour once every hour. Sundbusserne uses currently (February 2015) only ''Pernille'', a passenger boat for around 200 passengers. A smaller bar is located at its prow, but astern two decks are available for passengers. All Scandlines' vessels have cafeterias, bars and shops, but Aurora also has an a la carte restaurant on board. This isn't intended for common travelers, but more for local residents and others who makes one or more immediate return journeys (passengers do not need to leave the ships in port). Double or even triple return voyages are not uncommon. Locally this has spawned a new word (a verb) - to "tura" (Swedish) or to "ture" (Danish), which simply means "making at least one return trip for fun". In each city, the ferry terminals are directly connected to the main railway stations. Trains to Copenhagen depart every 20 minutes and arrives after 35 minutes. Also two different local train lines depart from Elsinore station. Both lines ends in Hillerød but one of them takes an indirect path, first along the North Zealand coast, but from Gilleleje the tracks turns to the south and passes through Gribskov, one of Denmark's largest forests. There is a very large time difference between the two different lines to Hillerød, around 20 minutes or 80 minutes. In Helsingborg the ferry terminal is connected to an underground railway station and the entire building is known as "''Knutpunkten''", "The Junction". The total amount of passengers from trains and ferries makes it one of the most busy stations in Sweden, around 50.000 passengers (including them in cars and lorries) uses "Knutpunkten" every day〔http://dictionary.sensagent.com/Knutpunkten/sv-sv/#cite_note-0, 18 million in a year makes 49.000 every day〕〔Helsingborgs stad (2003), stadskärna: Bevarandeprogram 2002, page 156. Helsingborg: Helsingborgs stad. ISBN 91-631-3664-3〕 Helsingborg is located on the Swedish West Coast Main Line ("Västkustbanan"), but the first 25 km north of "The Junction" station (until Ängelholm), only consists of a single track railway, which also have some very sharp bends and a steep elevation in the northern part of the city.〔Last part of http://www.trafikverket.se/Privat/Vagar-och-jarnvagar/Sveriges-jarnvagsnat/Vastkustbanan/ "Enligt vår nuvarande planering kommer utbyggnaden till största delen vara klar 2012–2014. Några sträckor kommer då att återstå, bland annat sträckan genom Varberg och sträckan Ängelholm–Helsingborg. Tunneln genom Hallandsås planeras vara klar 2015." No dual tracks between Helsingborg and Ängelholm exists〕 The interregional Øresund trains departures to Gothenburg and through Landskrona, Lund and Malmö across the Øresund Bridge to Copenhagen. Hence is it fully possible to make a full journey around Øresund by the use of trains and the HH Ferry route. Local Pågatåg also departures from "The Junction", in four directions. An important date for the Øresund crossings was 13 July 1952, as passports no longer were needed for travel between the Scandinavian countries and Finland.〔http://www.oresundstid.dk/arkiv/arkivkilde.aspx?id=1135&tekst=Temaer〕 ==History== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「HH Ferry route」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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