Dan° Swedish tunnel doubts
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Denmarkhas deferred to the end of this year a final decision whether to go ahead on the joint project with Sweden to build fixed crossings of the Ore Sound between the two countries.
Two separate schemes have been prepared: a railway tunnel between Halsingborg and Helsingor (Elsinore) and a combined bridge and tunnel link via Saltholm Island between Malmo and Copenhagen. The surface section of the latter route would be financed by Sweden with the costs of the Saltholm-Copenhagen tunnel borne by Denmark.
Growing opposition on environmental grounds to a new international airport on Saltholm — which would replace Copenhagen's Nastrup airport -have also drawn the tunnel bridge scheme into the foreground of an embittered argument. The Helsingor tunnel is strongly opposed by shipping interests in an area where ro/ro services are the most intensive in Europe. Throughout the day, and for most of the night, there are sailings every 15 minutes (some even duplicated by a second ferry operator) between Denmark and Sweden while, further north, the Port of Goteborg is pressing for an increase in service frequency to and from Frederikshavn, Denmark.
On the east coast of Sweden the train ferry between Stockholm and Nadendal, Finland, will be discontinued after the end of 1975 owing to loss of traffic to road freight using other routes.