Company type | Limited |
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Industry | Transport |
Founded | 1866 as Troms Fylkes Dampskibsselskap. |
Founder | Richard With |
Headquarters | Oslo, Norway |
Area served | Norway Svalbard Antarctica Greenland Iceland South America North America Transatlantic |
Key people | Daniel Skjeldam (CEO) |
Products | Ferry transport Freight shipping Cruise line |
Revenue | NOK 3,300 million (2013) |
NOK 261 million (2013) | |
NOK 26 million (2013) | |
Number of employees | 1,757 (2013) |
Parent | TDR Capital |
Subsidiaries | Hurtigruten Svalbard |
Website | Hurtigruten AS (in English) |
Hurtigruten AS is a Norwegian coastal ferry service and cruise line headquartered in Oslo, Norway. [1] It is one of two companies currently operating Hurtigruten , the coastal ferry service along the Norwegian coast from which it takes its name. [2]
In 2020, 81% of the company was owned by TDR Capital. [3] The CEO is Daniel Skjeldam. [4]
Hurtigruten AS is the result of a merger between the two previous operators of the Hurtigruten service, Troms Fylkes Dampskibsselskap (TFDS) and Ofotens og Vesteraalens Dampskibsselskab (OVDS). TFDS was founded in 1866, and OVDS was established in 1868. The two companies merged in March 2006 to form Hurtigruten Group ASA, and twelve months later the merged entity assumed the name Hurtigruten ASA.[ citation needed ]
In 2012, the company headquarters was moved from Narvik to Tromsø. [1] In October 2014, TDR Capital purchased a majority ownership of Hurtigruten. [5]
In 2015, the legal form of Hurtigruten was changed from ASA to AS. [6]
Hurtigruten AS is one of two operators of the Hurtigruten (literally "The Fast Route"), a daily passenger ferry, cruise, and shipping line along the western and northern Norwegian coast. [2] It operates between the southern Bergen and northeastern Kirkenes. A total of 11 ships operate the route. [7]
Several former Hurtigruten ships now operate as cruise ships to Antarctica, departing from Ushuaia on the Argentine Tierra del Fuego. The route can include the Falkland Islands and South Georgia Islands. [8] Hurtigruten Group acquired the MS Fram for their tour cruises in Greenland. [7]
Other cruises include touring: Iceland, [9] the Mediterranean Region coasts and ports, [10] and the 'Trans-Atlantic Voyage' from Las Palmas in the Canary Islands to Buenos Aires, Argentina. [11]
The company owns a number of travel related companies, including the tour operator Spitsbergen Travel and a number of travel agencies in Norway and abroad.
The Hurtigruten Museum is a maritime museum about the 'Hurtigruten' that is located in the port city of Stokmarknes, Norway. The MS Finnmarken, retired from the coastal express and a museum ship now, is located on shore beside the Hurtigruten Museum.
Hurtigruten ASA owned 71.3% of the transportation company TIRB. The shares were sold to Boreal Transport Nord AS in July 2014 for 95.9 million NOK. [12]
Hurtigruten AS operated a number of roll-on/roll-off car ferries in Nordland, Troms, Finnmark and Møre og Romsdal.
Hurtigruten AS owned two hotels in Bergen; Neptun Hotel and Strand Hotel. The hotels were sold to Bergen Hotel in 2008. [13]
As of 2020, Hurtigruten AS operates 16 ships in its fleet: [14]
Ship | Built | Last refit | Dimensions | Capacity | Notes | Ship image | Ref | ||||
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Length (m) | Beam (m) | Gross tonnage | Beds | Passengers | Cars | ||||||
MS Nordstjernen | 1956 | 2000 | 80.77 | 12.6 | 2,191 | 150 | 149 | 0 | [15] | ||
MS Lofoten | 1964 | 2003 | 87.4 | 13.26 | 2,621 | 151 | 400 | 0 | [16] | ||
MS Vesterålen | 1983 | 1995 | 108.55 | 16.5 | 6,261 | 301 | 490 | 24 | To be refurbished end-2019 | [17] | |
MS Kong Harald | 1993 | 2016 | 121.8 | 19.2 | 11,204 | 498 | 590 | - | [18] | ||
MS Richard With | 1993 | 2018 | 121.8 | 19.2 | 11,205 | 458 | 590 | 12 | [19] | ||
MS Nordlys | 1994 | 2019 | 121.8 | 19.2 | 11,204 | 471 | 590 | 24 | [20] | ||
MS Polarlys | 1996 | 2016 | 123 | 19.5 | 11,341 | 503 | 619 | 26 | [21] | ||
MS Nordkapp | 1996 | 2016 | 123.3 | 19.5 | 11,386 | 480 | 590 | 24 | [22] | ||
MS Nordnorge | 1997 | 2016 | 123.3 | 19.5 | 11,384 | 476 | 590 | 32 | [23] | ||
MS Otto Sverdrup | 2002 | 2020 | 138.5 | 21.5 | 15,690 | 554 | - | - | Formerly MS Finnmarken until 2020 refit | [24] | |
MS Trollfjord | 2002 | - | 135.75 | 21.5 | 16,140 | 576 | 822 | 35 | [25] | ||
MS Maud | 2003 | - | 135.75 | 21.5 | 16,151 | 632 | 970 | 32 | Formerly MS Midnatsol, renamed MS Maud after 2021 refit [26] | [27] | |
MS Fram | 2007 | 2020 | 114 | 20.2 | 11,647 | 276 | 318 | 0 | [28] | ||
MS Spitsbergen | 2009 | 2016 | 100.54 | 18 | 7,344 | 243 | 335 | 0 | [29] | ||
MS Roald Amundsen | 2019 | - | 140 | 23.6 | 20,889 | - | 530 | - | [30] | ||
MS Fridtjof Nansen | 2020 | - | 140 | 23.6 | 20,889 | - | 530 | - | [31] |
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