https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Sweden in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed The Swedish capital is becoming an increasingly popular destination for cruise ship tourists, figures from Ports of Stockholm reveal. https://www.thelocal.se/20181016/record-number-of-cruise-ship-tourists-visited-stockholm-this-summer Tue, 16 Oct 2018 10:59:56 +0200 record-number-of-cruise-ship-tourists-visited-stockholm-this-summer UPDATED: Swedish prosecutors on Saturday afternoon detained two young men pending an investigation into an alleged gang rape of a girl on board a student booze cruise between Stockholm and Finland this week. https://www.thelocal.se/20160402/three-jailed-ahead-of-booze-cruise-rape-trial Sat, 02 Apr 2016 17:35:00 +0200 three-jailed-ahead-of-booze-cruise-rape-trial Swedish ferry operator Stena Line has had enough of some of its popular cruises getting out of control and is now asking passengers getting on in Poland to sign a document attesting they have read and understood the rules before being allowed on board. https://www.thelocal.se/20160305/stena-line-wants-polish-booze-cruisers-to-behave Sat, 05 Mar 2016 19:00:04 +0100 stena-line-wants-polish-booze-cruisers-to-behave An iconic vessel which once travelled the globe as the world's largest cruise ship could provide a temporary home for up to 1,800 refugees in Sweden if migration agency plans go ahead. https://www.thelocal.se/20160218/this-cruise-ship-could-become-swedens-biggest-asylum-home Thu, 18 Feb 2016 09:02:18 +0100 this-cruise-ship-could-become-swedens-biggest-asylum-home Stockholm has been ranked as the hottest cruise destination in all of Europe, according to the Brits, who voted the Swedish capital ahead of Barcelona, Venice, and the Norwegian fjords in a recent survey. https://www.thelocal.se/20131001/50540 Tue, 01 Oct 2013 16:21:00 +0200 50540 In an ad campaign for trips to Germany and Poland, ferry liner company Stena Line describes the forties - a period closely associated with war and Nazi persecution - as a "delightful decade when lots of fun things happened". https://www.thelocal.se/20121209/44942 Sun, 09 Dec 2012 12:59:00 +0100 44942 A 22-year-old woman who disappeared from a Sweden-bound ferry in the early hours of Sunday morning is still missing, with security camera footage suggesting she fell overboard into the Baltic Sea. https://www.thelocal.se/20121129/44732 Thu, 29 Nov 2012 11:14:00 +0100 44732 A cruise liner carrying some 2,000 crew and passengers spent much of Sunday adrift in the Baltic seas after a power outage, according to the Swedish sea rescue. https://www.thelocal.se/20110516/33792 Mon, 16 May 2011 09:22:00 +0200 33792 The shipping industry has been slammed in a World Wildlife Fund (WWF) report which showed that more than half of the cruises ships sailing in the Baltic dump their sewage directly into the sea. https://www.thelocal.se/20100922/29184 Wed, 22 Sep 2010 15:36:00 +0200 29184 Sweden's coastal waters are under threat from tonnes of human and other waste being regularly dumped into the Baltic Sea by passenger liners, according to a new report. https://www.thelocal.se/20090717/20752 Fri, 17 Jul 2009 14:35:00 +0200 20752 Six cruise ship passengers, at least five of them British, have been hospitalised in Sweden showing symptoms of Legionnaires disease, a medical source and the ship operator said Saturday. https://www.thelocal.se/20070729/8031 Sun, 29 Jul 2007 13:59:00 +0200 8031