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road transport

Hardanger Sunnhordlandske Dampskipsselskap

Dissolved 2006

Headquarters: Bergen
Founded: 1880
Employees: 57

Photo: Unknown authorUnknown author · 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

21,784

Summed over 33 ships reporting tonnage

In brief

What Hardanger Sunnhordlandske Dampskipsselskap is

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Hardanger Sunnhordlandske Dampskipsselskap (HSD), founded in 1880, was one of Norway's largest privately held public transportation providers. Its bus operation HSD Buss AS was founded in 1999, and serviced 15 million passengers annually in large parts of western Norway, predominantly in Vestland. It also had a ferry service, HSD Sjø AS, transporting passengers along the west coast of Norway. The fleet consisted of 31 ferries and 10 catamarans as of 2006.

Corporate profile

Identity and registration

Legal name: Hardanger Sunnhordlandske Dampskipsselskap
Industry: road transport
Legal form: aksjeselskap
Country of registration: Norway
Headquarters: Bergen
Formed in: —
Founded: 1880
Dissolved: 2006
Employees: 57
Head office coordinates: 60.3925, 5.3233

Ships on record here: 43
Vessel types operated: 4
Flag states used: 5
Average vessel age: 65.9 years
Oldest vessel on record: 1897
Newest vessel on record: 1993
Largest vessel by tonnage: 3,780
Average tonnage: 660
Market share: —
Parent company: —
Alliance: —
Record source: wikidata
Last refreshed: 2026-09-05

Fleet on record

What this company sails

Composition of the 43 vessels this registry attributes to Hardanger Sunnhordlandske Dampskipsselskap. Bars are true proportions of that set, not of the company's full fleet.

By vessel type

By flag state

By shipbuilder

Mjellem & Karlsen Verft6

Bergen Mekaniske Verksted5

Aker Solutions Stord4

Ankerløkken Verft4

Westermoen Hydrofoil3

Brødrene Lothe3

Haugesunds Slip3

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. No deliveries fall inside this window — this company’s vessels on record were all built earlier.

Year	Gross tonnage added	Fleet on record
2017	—	43
2018	—	43
2019	—	43
2020	—	43
2021	—	43
2022	—	43
2023	—	43
2024	—	43
2025	—	43
2026	—	43

Vessel records

Ships on record · Multi-purpose

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Ship	IMO	Type	Flag	Built	Gross tonnage	Deadweight	Length	Builder
Karmsund	7724203	Multi-purpose	Norway	1979	2,728	—	89.4 m	Brødrene Lothe

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 Hardanger Sunnhordlandske Dampskipsselskap compares

Counts over companies and vessels actually held in this directory — not over the world fleet, which is larger. Nothing here is estimated.

With 43 vessels attributed to it here, Hardanger Sunnhordlandske Dampskipsselskap is the 20th 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.

Norway is the country of registration for 150 commercial operators in this directory, among which Hardanger Sunnhordlandske Dampskipsselskap ranks 4th by ships on record. Between them those companies hold 831 vessels here. See every operator registered in Norway.

Founded in 1880, Hardanger Sunnhordlandske Dampskipsselskap is 146 years old. This directory holds 41 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 Q1772879, released under CC0. Counted figures on this page are counts over those records.

Written summaryQuoted from Hardanger Sunnhordlandske Dampskipsselskap on English Wikipedia, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Published fleet figuresNo published fleet figure is available for this company.