Grenaa Port has now announced that it will keep the ferry terminal on standby for one year from 30 April, while it is determined whether a new operator can be found to run ferry services to Sweden from the port. If this is not successful within a year, the port will begin transforming the terminal area for other port-related activities. 

This would mark the end of 66 years of ferry service between Grenaa and western Sweden. It was the Norwegian company I/S Europafergen that initiated traffic between Sweden and Grenaa in 1960 with the ferry EUROPAFERGEN. Grenaa lost its domestic route to Hundested in Zealand in 1996. After Stena Line’s exit, only one passenger route will remain from the port: the municipally owned lifeline route to the remote Kattegat island of Anholt, operated by the ferry ANHOLT.