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Mols-Linien was formed by DFDS in 1964 sailings commenced on 18 May 1966.
A downturn in traffic following the 1973 oil crisis led Mols-Linien into a pooling agreement with rival Grenaa-Hundested Linien in 1979.
In 1984 DFDS sold Mols-Linien and Grenaa-Hundested Linien to J. Lauritzen A/S. The company was sold 4 years later to Danish investment company DIFKO.
In 1999 Mols-Linien merged with Scandlines subsidiary Cat-Link.
Scandlines sold its holding to the Clipper Group in 2008.
In July 2011, Mols-Linien announced it was to terminate the Kalundborg – Aarhus route and sell the two vessels operating the route.
Mols-Linien terminated the Aarhus – Kalundborg route on 15 September 2011. Thereafter the route was operated by Kattegatruten until October 2013 and then suspended.
In 2016 Mols-Linien won a 10-year public tender to operate ferry services to Bornholm, and operations started in September 2018 under the name Bornholmslinjen. In 2017, the routes in the Kattegat operated under the new name Molslinjen.
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In 2018, the ferry routes of Alslinjen, Langelandslinjen, Samsølinjen and Fanølinjen became part of Molslinjen with the acquisition of Danske Færger.
The Swedish private equity company EQT bought the Danish shipping company Molslinjen in December 2020 from Kapitalfonden Polaris, who had owned it since 2015. It was merged into a common holding company, Nordic Ferry Infrastructure, with Norwegian ferry operator Torghatten.
In January 2023, the Danish and Swedish competition regulators approved the sale of ForSea Ferries to Molslinjen for an undisclosed sum.
In 2025, the company ordered three battery-electric drive-through Incat catamarans for the Kattegat route in 2028, with a 118 MWh shore battery in each port to handle 2-3 ship charging sessions regardless of grid conditions.
From Wikipedia’s article on Molslinjen, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.5