rail transport
Hydro Transport
Hydro Transport AS
- Headquarters
- Notodden Municipality
- Founded
- 1907
- Employees
- —
Photo: Anders Beer Wilse · Public domain · file
Reported fleet size
—
No published figure available
Container capacity
—
Not a ranked container line
Gross tonnage on record
2,048
Summed over 2 ships reporting tonnage
In brief
What Hydro Transport is
Hydro Transport AS was a railway- and shipping company responsible for the transport of chemicals from Norsk Hydro Rjukan. A subsidiary of Norsk Hydro, the company was founded in 1907, operations ceased in 1991, while the company became defunct at the end of 2009.
To transport the products to the coastal port at Skien, Norsk Hydro needed to build an extensive railway network. Cargo was stored in tank cars and transported down the 16-kilometre (10 mi) Rjukanbanen to Mæl, where it was transferred to the Tinnsjø railway ferry. After a 30-kilometre (19 mi) ride across the lake, it was again transferred to Tinnoset Line and transported 34 kilometres (21 mi) to Notodden where it was transshipped to barges and transported down the Telemark Canal. After 1919 the final stage was replaced with the 74-kilometre (46 mi) Bratsberg Line; simultaneously the Tinnoset Line was nationalized and taken over by Norges Statsbaner.
