Anniversary of the INTERNATIONAL LINE TO COPENHAGEN

 

 

For Lasta, the year 2022 is marked by great and significant jubilees.
At the beginning of April, another big number was registered, the 75th year of the company's existence, and on this day, 35 years ago, the international line to Denmark, ie Copenhagen, was opened.
At that time, the line was registered on the route Kladovo-Belgrade-Copenhagen-Frederiksverk, and operated twice a week on Fridays and Sundays both ways. Lasta's co-operator on this line was the carrier from this country and at the same time the representative of other Scandinavian countries "Espergarde Turistfart". After a little more than a year of traffic, the route of the line was extended to the southwestern part of Sweden, i.e. Gothenburg.
The transit countries through which the road route led were Austria and the Federal Republic of Germany. Lasta's "Dubrava" bus, at that time one of the most comfortable in its fleet, set off on a 2,600-kilometer journey with representatives from the federal, republican and city services for traffic and tourism, Lasta's business associates and competent company representatives. The first break on the long journey was in the immediate vicinity of Zagreb, at the Plitvice motel. In the far north of FR Germany, in Putgarden, the bus was boarding the ferry on its way to the island of Seeland, where the Danish capital Copenhagen is located.
The ceremonial opening of one of Lasta's longest international lines was held on November 28, 1987 at Rodhus Square in the center of Copenhagen with the sounds of the Royal Guard on the eve of November 29 - the Republic Day of the then Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (SFRJ), with the presence of several hundred citizens of Yugoslavia on temporary work in that country. The ribbon between the two buses, Lastina's and the subcontractor from Denmark "Espergarde Turistfart" was cut by the Head of the Civil Service in the Ministry of Public Works of Denmark Kurt Larsen with the support of the Yugoslav Ambassador Ana Jovanović.

                                                            

The ceremony on the occasion of the opening of the first bus line between the two countries of Yugoslavia and Denmark was attended by about a hundred dignitaries from these two countries, representatives of the Danish Ministry of Transport, as well as the Yugoslav and Belgrade Committees for Transport and Communications, businessmen of the host country and representatives of the public media from these two countries.
Passengers on the first departure for Denmark included general director of SP Lasta Jovan Pejić, director of Lasta's OOUR for international traffic Vuk Vuković, president of the Zvezdara Municipal Assembly Radmil Jovanović, representative of the Tourist Association of Yugoslavia in Denmark Mihajlo Đurčić, business partners and Lasta's journalists.
At that time, there were several thousands of workers from Yugoslavia working temporarily in Denmark and the countries of Scandinavia, and after the opening of this line, it was easier for them to return to their homeland.