A HELIOS vagy egyik testvérhajója éppen elindult a DDSG Petőfi téri hajóállásáról.

Donau-Dampfschiffahrts-Gesellschaft, Erste, DDSG (First Danube Steamship Company), founded 1829, navigated the River Danube and its tributaries, in 1834 also took up marine navigation (Trieste-Constantinople as first steamer line in the Mediterranean). Before World War I it maintained one of the largest inland fleets in Europe (1914: 142 steamers, 860 tugboats with a tonnage of 470,000 t) and even after 1918 remained the leading shipping enterprise on the River Danube (1937: 22 passenger steamers, 25 tug and freight steamers, 394 tugboats, 29 oil tankers). The number of ships was drastically reduced during World War II. During the occupation 1945-1955 the DDSG, which was designated German property, was put under Soviet administration; it was returned to Austrian ownership as a state-r ... more