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Reported fleet size
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No published figure available
Container capacity
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Not a ranked container line
Gross tonnage on record
13,485
Summed over 4 ships reporting tonnage
In brief
FRS GmbH & Co KG (formerly Förde Reederei Seetouristik, also operating internationally as Fast Reliable Seaways), commonly known as FRS, is a German transportation company specializing in passenger ferry and freight transportation. It originally started as a regional passenger ferry operator founded in 1866. Since then, it has expanded in recent years to an international business group and became one of Europe's leading ferry operators. FRS provides conventional ferries, as well as high speed ferries. With 70 vessels and approximately 2,000 employees worldwide, FRS transports 7.9 million passengers and 2.1 million vehicles per year. The company group has its headquarters in Northern Germany, Flensburg and comprises 17 subsidiaries located in Europe, North Africa, Middle East and North America. Focusing on national and international ferry and catamaran operations, FRS also specializes in Offshore Logistics, Port Management, Crewing and Maritime Consulting.
Corporate profile
Fleet on record
Composition of the 4 vessels this registry attributes to FRS. Bars are true proportions of that set, not of the company's full fleet.
Delivery history
Ships delivered in each of the last 10 years, counted from the recorded build year of vessels attributed to this company, with the running total of its fleet on record. 1 deliveries fall inside this window.
| Year | Deliveries | Ships delivered | Gross tonnage added | Fleet on record |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 0 | — | 3 | |
| 2018 | 1 | 1,231 | 4 | |
| 2019 | 0 | — | 4 | |
| 2020 | 0 |
Vessel records
| Ship | IMO | Type | Flag | Built | Gross tonnage | Deadweight | Length | Builder |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9279264 | Unclassified | Venezuela | 2004 | 6,242 | — | 87.0 m | Austal | |
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In context
Counts over companies and vessels actually held in this directory — not over the world fleet, which is larger. Nothing here is estimated.
With 4 vessels attributed to it here, FRS is the 213th largest of the 965 operators in this directory that hold at least one ship on record, against a median of 2 across that group. That is a count of individually identified hulls, not the company’s published fleet size — the two are different measurements and both are shown above where available.
Germany is the country of registration for 147 commercial operators in this directory, among which FRS ranks 31st by ships on record. Between them those companies hold 640 vessels here. 1 of them carry a published container-capacity ranking. See every operator registered in Germany.
Founded in 1990, FRS is 36 years old. This directory holds 128 operators founded within five years either side of that date, whose median fleet on record is 1 ships. The median founding year across all commercial operators here is 1966, and the oldest on record dates to 1514.
Same country
Provenance
Company and vessel recordsWikidata item Q1479892, released under CC0. Counted figures on this page are counts over those records.
Written summaryQuoted from Förde Reederei Seetouristik on English Wikipedia, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Published fleet figuresNo published fleet figure is available for this company.
By shipbuilder
| — |
| 4 |
| 2021 | 0 | — | 4 |
| 2022 | 0 | — | 4 |
| 2023 | 0 | — | 4 |
| 2024 | 0 | — | 4 |
| 2025 | 0 | — | 4 |
| 2026 | 0 | — | 4 |
| 9176060 |
| Ferry |
| Cyprus |
| 1998 |
| 5,619 |
| — |
| 91.3 m |
| Incat |
| 9825295 | Ferry | Cyprus | 2018 | 1,231 | — | 56.4 m | Austal USA |
| 6926244 | Passenger vessel | Finland | 1969 | 393 | — | 39.1 m | Husumer Schiffswerft |
Ships in registry counts individual vessel records attributed to the company here. Reported fleet is the company’s published total. They measure different things and are shown separately on purpose.
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