 Even before the First World War, Sassnitz Hafen railway station was established in Sassnitz as a ferry terminal for the so-called Kings Line from Germany to Sweden (Trelleborg).In the 1980s, a new ferry terminal with broad- and standard gauge tracks was built in the subdistrict of Mukran.From Mukran there are ferries to and from Klaipeda in Lithuania, to Bornholm and St. Petersburg.