
Four ferries about 1,000 passengers have been freed from the heavy ice off the coast of Sweden and have returned to port Friday.
Arctic icebreakers winds hampered efforts "for the free ferry and at least 30 other ships from the clutches of the Baltic Sea on Thursday, according to Birger Knutsson, a spokesman for the Maritime Center in Gothenburg, Sweden.
The area with the ice was worse bounded by the mainland of Sweden, the archipelago of Stockholm and the Finnish island of Aland, maritime navigation.
"It is much colder than normal in the southern Baltic Sea has been. But in the north, everything is normal, with normal levels of hockey," said Tommy Guard led the group at sea.
"However, the most affected areas, the icebreaker function normally were not able to handle the ice.
There was never any danger to the safety of the ship. But we have prepared us for the event, because the ice a lot of pressure on the sides of the ship port.

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