The Baltic Sea ferry service crossing between Rostock in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and Gedser in Denmark was completely cancelled on Sunday, according to operator Scandlines.
The operator wrote in a statement on its website: "Gedser–Rostock: Departures cancelled due to weather on 04–05 October. Last departures Saturday 18:00 from both ports. All departures on the route Sunday 05.10.2025 are cancelled."
It said the normal schedule would resume on Monday with the 01:45 from Gedser and 01:30 from Rostock.
In the meantime, it recommended using the Rødby to Puttgarden route, which it said was operating according to schedule.Â
Some North Sea ferries were also cancelled or had their schedules changed on Saturday, including those sailing between Dagebüll in Schleswig-Holstein and the North Sea islands of Amrum and Föhr.
As a result of the storms and predicted flooding, the service to Germany's Halligen islands was temporarily suspended on Saturday and completely cancelled between SchlĂĽttsiel and the islands on Sunday
The ferry service to Sylt, Germany's northernmost island, was also interrupted on Saturday and Sunday.
"Due to extreme flooding, we will not be operating as scheduled on Sunday. Further weather-related schedule adjustments are possible," the operator said in a statement on their website. They added that they would offer additional evening departures, if necessary.
Germany's Maritime and Hydrographic Agency (BSH) had previously warned of a risk of storm surges, advising that water levels on the North Sea coast, as well as in Bremen and Hamburg, could rise up to two metres above normal.
The German Weather Service (DWD) had predicted stormy gusts and squalls for Sunday on the North Sea and on Fehmarn, an island off the north-east coast of Germany.
Gusts were predicted to reach 85 kilometres per hour, with some isolated squalls even hitting 100 kilometres per hour, it said.
In the municipality of Harlesiel on the East Frisian coast, the entire beach and campsite area was evacuated as a precaution. However, in the end, the situation was "not so bad," the municipality wrote on social media on Sunday.
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