Cruise news (Viking Cruises-tagged)
- Cruise Industry
Viking Venus delivered at Fincantieri shipyard in Ancona, Italy
Viking Venus, the newest ocean cruise ship Fincantieri is building for the shipowner Viking Cruises, was delivered on Thursday, April 15, at the...
April 16, 2021 - Cruise Industry
Viking Ocean restarts with cruises around Bermuda and Iceland in June
Viking Ocean Cruises announced it would continue restarting limited operations with sailings around Bermuda and Iceland beginning in June. As a...
April 8, 2021 - Cruise Industry
Viking River Cruises newest riverboats Viking Gymir and Viking Egdir delivered
The German shipbuilding company Neptun Werft (Rostock) on March 25 delivered a couple of river cruise vessels to the shipping company Viking River...
April 6, 2021 - Cruise Industry
Fred Olsen restarts UK cruises in July
Fred Olsen Cruise Lines became the latest company to announce UK domestic sailings for the summer months. The company plans a restart in July 2021...
March 18, 2021 - Cruise Industry
Viking Ocean restarts cruises in May with 3 England coastal voyages
Viking Cruises announced it would restart limited operations in May 2021 with 3 special sailings along the coast of England. Exclusively available...
March 17, 2021 - Cruise Industry
Port Bodrum Turkey welcomes 2021's first cruise ship
Turkey welcomed the first cruise ship of season 2021 in a development that comes after the Coronavirus/COVID crisis restrictions brought travel to a...
March 15, 2021 - Cruise Industry
Italian shipbuilder Fincantieri to deliver 7 cruise ships in 2021
The Italian shipbuilding company Fincantieri announced it expected to return to the pre-COVID growth levels by 2021 and deliver a total of 7...
March 2, 2021 - Cruise Industry
Viking cancels ocean and river cruises through May 31
The premium travel company Viking Cruises announced it had cancelled scheduled departures through to May 31, 2021, noting that impacted clients and...
February 22, 2021 - Cruise Industry
Fincantieri starts building Viking Ocean's newest cruise ship Viking Mars
The keel was laid on Thursday, February 4, at the Ancona Italy shipyard for the 8th cruise ship of the shipbuilder Fincantieri for the shipowner...
February 4, 2021 - Cruise Industry
Viking Cruises Egypt's ship Viking Aton debuts in 2022 on Nile River
Viking River Cruises announced it will be launching a new riverboat in 2022. Viking Aton will have 5 decks (3 with cabins), 41 staterooms and...
January 26, 2021 - Cruise Industry
Viking Cruises' ship Viking Sun becomes China-flagged
Viking Cruises' Viking Sun ship departed Port Skagen Denmark, on Saturday, January 23, and is heading to Valletta Malta. The ship's final destination...
January 26, 2021 - Cruise Industry
Viking Cruises ship visits Panama City in 2021-Q1
Viking Cruises was planning to drop anchor in Panama City (Fuerte Amador, Balboa) as early as the first quarter of this current year during a trial...
January 20, 2021 - Cruise Industry
Viking Octantis cruise ship in 2022 becomes the largest on the Great Lakes
For the first time, Thunder Bay ON will become a homeport/turnaround port for a Great Lakes cruise vessel starting in 2022. Viking Cruises announced...
January 16, 2021 - Cruise Industry
Viking Venus cruise ship's Godmother revealed
Viking Cruises announced that British journalist and broadcaster Anne Diamond will be serving as the godmother of its 7th ocean ship, Viking Venus...
January 5, 2021 - Cruise Industry
Viking and American Cruise Lines to make waterfront improvements in Vicksburg Mississippi
Two cruise companies that offer Mississippi River voyages can start making developments to the waterfront in Vicksburg MS (Mississippi). The city's...
December 28, 2020