The Bornholm Tunnel ( Danish : Bornholmtunnelen , Swedish : Bornholmstunneln ) is a proposed railway tunnel which would be built between the island of Bornholm , belonging to Denmark , and Scania in Sweden . The tunnel would provide a fixed link to the island, both using direct trains running from Copenhagen and with a motorail service to transport automobiles. The tunnel would be 40 kilometers (25 mi) long and provide a one-hour transit time for cars, including loading and unloading, and a two-hour service by rail to Copenhagen via the Ystad Line and the Øresund Line . The latter could be further reduced with construction of high-speed rail in southern Scania.
7-553: Today the island is served by ferries operated by Bornholmslinjen from Rønne , the main town on the island, to Ystad in Sweden, Køge in Denmark and Sassnitz in Germany. Travel time from Ystad to Rønne is two and a half hours with conventional ferries and one hour twenty minutes with fast ferries, with three to eight daily sailings combined. From Rønne to Køge takes five and a half hours and has
14-524: A single daily sailing, while from Rønne to Sassnitz is seasonal and offered three to ten times per week and takes three and a half hours. DSB operates three daily train services branded as Intercity Bornholm from Copenhagen Central Station to Ystad Station , where passengers transfer to the ferries. The last direct DSB service will operate on 9 December 2017, after that local train services are to be used. Danish Air Transport operates flights from Bornholm Airport to Copenhagen Airport . Costs for running
21-678: The Clipper Group in 2008. In July 2011, Molslinjen announced it was to terminate the Kalundborg – Aarhus route and sell the two vessels operating the route. Molslinjen terminated the Aarhus – Kalundborg route on 15 September 2011. Thereafter the route was operated by Kattegatruten until October 2013 and then suspended. In 2016 Molslinjen won a 10-year public tender to operate ferry services to Bornholm , and operations started in September 2018 under
28-527: The ferry service are DKK 400 million per year, of which DKK 150 million are subsidies. If the same user payment and subsidies was used to finance the tunnel, with a running time of 30 years, it would allow investments for DKK 10 billion. Estimates for the cost of the tunnel vary from DKK 5 to 50 billion. The Danish organization Foreningen Bornholmtunnel and the Swedish organization Föreningen Stöd Bornholmstunneln collaborate to raise awareness about
35-490: The importance of a tunnel between Bornholm and Scania. The Bornholm province decided in April 2013 not to pay for a detailed investigation 55°18′N 14°24′E / 55.3°N 14.4°E / 55.3; 14.4 Bornholmslinjen Molslinjen (previously Mols-Linien ) is a Danish company that operates ferry services between Jutland and Zealand , and also services to Bornholm . In March 2017,
42-602: The name Bornholmslinjen . In 2018, the ferry routes of Alslinjen, Langelandslinjen, Samsølinjen and Fanølinjen became part of Molslinjen with the acquisition of Danske Færger . In January 2023, the Danish and Swedish competition regulators approved the sale of ForSea Ferries to Molslinjen for an undisclosed sum. Molslinjen Bornholms-linjen Langelandslinjen Fanølinjen Samsølinjen Alslinjen Øresundslinjen Former Ships Molslinjen operates various routes around Denmark and surrounding countries, under
49-581: The routes in the Kattegat were renamed to Molslinjen. Molslinjen was formed by DFDS in 1964 sailings commenced on 18 May 1966. A downturn in traffic following the 1973 oil crisis led Molslinjen into a pooling agreement with rival Grenaa-Hundested Linien in 1979. In 1984 DFDS sold Molslinjen and Grenaa-Hundested Linien to J. Lauritzen A/S . The company was sold 4 years later to Danish investment company DIFKO. In 1999 Molslinjen merged with Scandlines subsidiary Cat-Link. Scandlines sold its holding to
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