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Cuxhaven / Brunsbüttel (dpa) - Cuxhaven and Brunsbüttel are to be connected again with a ferry next year.
The "Greenferry 1", which runs on liquefied natural gas (LNG), will start operating on the Elbe in March 2021, Elbferry GmbH announced on Wednesday.
The crossing will take a maximum of an hour.
The ferry is supposed to rotate every three hours.
"An additional connection over the Elbe is absolutely necessary for traffic reasons," said Parliamentary State Secretary Enak Ferlemann (CDU) according to the press release.
The previous traffic routes are overloaded.
According to the information, there is space for 150 cars, 28 trucks and 600 people on the ferry.
Past figures have proven that the connection can be operated economically, emphasized Elbferry managing director Heinrich Ahlers.
His first attempt to resume ferry operations between Lower Saxony and Schleswig-Holstein in spring 2019 with Elbferry GmbH, however, failed.
Now the shipping company Strahlmann and MTB New Energy from Brunsbüttel are on board as shareholders.
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Most recently, the Elb-Link ferry company ceased ferry operations after just a few months and filed for bankruptcy in November 2017.
Before that, the predecessor company had already given up.
From 1999 to 2001 an Elbe ferry shuttled between Cuxhaven and Brunsbüttel.
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