Stormy weather in Scandinavia forced around 900 passengers on the ferry between Oslo and Copenhagen to spend an unplanned overnight stay at sea. Due to wind conditions, the ferry will likely not be able to dock in Copenhagen until Thursday morning, a ferry company spokesperson said.
The ferry service between Oslo and Copenhagen is popular with both Norwegians and Danes as a way to take a trip to each other’s capital. The ferry was supposed to arrive in Copenhagen on Wednesday morning, but was unable to dock there due to bad weather. In the afternoon she was in the Öresund, the strait between Denmark and Sweden.
The sick passenger was taken away by helicopter
According to ferry company DFDS, passengers would receive free food and drinks. As the Danish news agency Ritzau reported, a passenger was taken off board by helicopter due to illness.
Further ferry crossings have been cancelled
Heavy snow initially hit western parts of Denmark on Wednesday, while other parts of the country received heavy rainfall. The weather was accompanied by strong winds and gusts. The Oslo ferry was not the only one affected: among other things, several ferry crossings between the Danish Baltic Sea island of Bornholm and Ystad in southern Sweden and between Hirtshals in Denmark and Kristiansand and Larvik in southern Norway had to be cancelled.
Source: Krone
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