“This is a European trend that is now coming to Norway”, says Arne Rident, scientist at Transportøkonomisk Institutt in Norway, to the newspaper Bergens Tidende.
Bergen is mostly affected as three of four services have been or will be closed down. Recently the Faroese shipping company Smyril Line announced that the weekly sailings between Torshavn and Bergen will be laid down in the beginning of 2009 due to the company’s financial situation.