Bore About Us Our Fleet Our Approach Contact Us Search A Health and Safety Oriented Workplace Your Partner in Shipping Shipping since 1897 Quality & Safety About Us > Shipping since 1897 Shipping since 1897 Bore has long traditions in shipping, and today's business is focused on flexible solutions to our customers cargo transportation requirements Bore’s values and solid foundation in the shipping industry, reflects the long traditions since 1897. Bore has evolved from being in the passenger shipping to RoRo tonnage providing, with a current fleet of RoRo vessels to meet the various cargo transport requirement in our customers trade. The evolvement towards RoRo cargo operations started when Bore entered cargo services in 1924. In 1967, Bore introduced the first aft ramp RoRo vessel in Finland. Today, Bore’s mission is to be a trustworthy corner stone in the development of our customers’ business within their specific trade to stand as Your Partner in Shipping to our charterers. Historical Milestones 1897 Bore Steamship Company was founded in 1897. Its first ship S/S Bore, built for year around traffic between Turku and Stockholm, was delivered in 1898. 1924 Bore started cargo service trade from Finland in the Baltic and the North Sea area. 1926 Finland – South American Line was opened. Bore sailed this line for 30 years. 1958 Finnish Steamship Company, Rederieaktiebolaget Svea and Bore founded Silja Line for passenger service between Finland and Sweden. 1967 Bore introduced the first aft ramp RoRo vessels in Finland. 1980 Bore left passenger shipping, with a focus on cargo ships only. Bore King and Queen were delivered. 1987 Bore merged into the Rettig Group. Bore continues line operations with the focus on owning and managing ships. 1991 Rettig and Finnlines agreed a transfer of the Bore Line operations to the Finnlines Group. 1999 M/V Norsky and Norstream were delivered from Aker Finnyards, Rauma, FInland. 2007 Bore, Engship and BHC are merged into a new ship-owner: Rettig Group Ltd Bore Ship owning Company. 2011 Bore was incorporated as Bore Ltd. New investments in RoFlex ® vessels, M/V Bore Sea and M/V Bore Song were delivered from Flensburg, Germany. 2015 Bore decided to focus on RoRo-tonnage providing under Finnish flag. 2016 Bore was acquired by the Spliethoff Group. 2017 Bore Sea and Bore Song were flagged to NL flag 2019 Bore signed a new-building contract with Wuhu Shipyard Co.Ltd in China for three (3) new LNG-powered RoLo vessels to be built during 2020-2021. Bore Copyright © 2021 Bore Contacts Privacy Policy Bore LinkedIn Member of Spliethoff Group Spliethoff Group Code of Conduct Useful links