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water transport

FRS

Headquarters: Flensburg
Founded: 1990
Employees: —

Official website

Photo: Wilfredor · Public domain · file

Ships in this registry

Counted from individual vessel records · Wikidata

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

What FRS is

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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

Identity and registration

Legal name: —
Industry: water transport
Legal form: GmbH & Co. KG
Country of registration: Germany
Headquarters: Flensburg
Formed in: —
Founded: 1990
Dissolved: —
Employees: —
Head office coordinates: 54.7819, 9.4367

Ships on record here: 4
Vessel types operated: 3
Flag states used: 3
Average vessel age: 28.8 years
Oldest vessel on record: 1969
Newest vessel on record: 2018
Largest vessel by tonnage: 6,242
Average tonnage: 3,371
Market share: —
Parent company: —
Alliance: —
Record source: wikidata
Last refreshed: 2026-09-05

Fleet on record

What this company sails

Composition of the 4 vessels this registry attributes to FRS. Bars are true proportions of that set, not of the company's full fleet.

By vessel type

By flag state

By shipbuilder

Austal1

Austal USA1

Husumer Schiffswerft1

Incat1

Delivery history

10-year fleet record

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	Ships delivered	Gross tonnage added	Fleet on record
2017	0	—	3
2018	1	1,231	4
2019	0	—	4
2020	0	—	4
2021	0	—	4
2022	0	—	4
2023	0	—	4
2024	0	—	4
2025	0	—	4
2026	0	—	4

Vessel records

Ships on record · Passenger vessel

Show all types

Ship	IMO	Type	Flag	Built	Gross tonnage	Deadweight	Length	Builder
Carelia	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.

In context

How FRS compares

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.

Provenance

Where this page comes from

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.