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Cityterminalen Interior. In 1982, Stockholm Municipality and SJ (Swedish State Railways) organised a competition for a new bus terminal near Stockholm Central Station. The winning project, titled Vasaterminalen, was a collaboration between several architect firms, including ARKEN, Tengbom, and Ralph Erskine.
MV Astoria is a ship that was constructed as the transatlantic ocean liner Stockholm for Swedish American Line, and rebuilt as a cruise ship in 1993. Ordered in 1944, and commenced service in 1948, at 76 years old, she is the oldest deep water passenger liner still around in a non retired status.
In March 1950 the company placed an order for a new combined cruise ship/ocean liner with De Schelde shipyard at Vlissingen, Netherlands. On 18 January 1951 the Swedish American Line re-commenced cruise service for the first time since 1941, when the Stockholm embarked on a cruise to the West Indies. [2]
The Olympic pier was first used by cruise ships to Stockholm. [1] When the Olympia Terminal was completed in 1952, it was visited by over 90,000 passengers annually, but only in summer and autumn. Silja Line started all-year-round traffic from the Olympia Terminal to Stockholm in 1972 and regular traffic to Tallinn in 1995. However, regular ...
Stockholm has a congestion pricing system, the Stockholm congestion tax, [20] in use on a permanent basis since 1 August 2007, [21] [22] after having had a seven-month trial period in the first half of 2006. [23] The City Centre is within the congestion tax zone.
Interior view of MS Silja Symphony during a Helsinki-Stockholm cruise. While the Silja Symphony was being built, the Wärtsilä Marine shipyard went bankrupt, and as a result she was delivered several months behind schedule on 30 May 1991. On 1 June she was put on the route Helsinki–Stockholm.
The City of Paris may refer to: Paris, capital of France; La Ville de Paris, a 1910-12 painting by Robert Delaunay; La Ville de Paris, a dirigible constructed in 1906;
Map of Sweden Stockholm, capital of Sweden Gothenburg Malmö. This is a list of cities in modern Sweden that once enjoyed city privileges, thus were entitled to call themselves town (Swedish: stad, plural städer). The year indicates the year they were established or when they were granted a royal charter.