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Faroese Port in Obsolescence

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For several decades, the Faroese port, later Nordafar, was a commercial powerhouse on the west coast of Greenland, about 50 kilometers south of Nuuk. Nordafar went bankrupt in 1989, and the government also lost many millions.   The midfielder Kaj Hjalgrímson was ahead and bought the station, but a few years later "Handelsselskabet Færingehavn ApS", as his company was called, went into voluntary liquidation. Since then, no one has maintained the …
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The history of the Faroese harbor goes back 100 years. In the 1920s, Faroese fishermen began looking for new routes under Greenland, and from this activity came a fishing station, which later received the name of the Faroese Harbour. A good natural harbor in the Kangerluarsoruseq fjord, about 50 kilometers south of Nuuk. One reason for this step was that the Faroese were not allowed to enter Greenlandic ports to land and work. The Danish soverei…

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Kringvarp Føroya broke the news on Friday, October 23, 2026.
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