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Hurtigruten AS

Hurtigruten AS

Norwegian ferry service and cruise line

This article is about the shipping company. For the route along the coast of Norway that the company is also named after, see Hurtigruten.

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]

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MS Kong Harald (coastal express) in Geirangerfjord.

In 2020, 81% of the company was owned by TDR Capital.[3] The CEO is Daniel Skjeldam.[4]

History

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]

Operations

Coastal express service

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]

Cruise ships

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]

Tourism

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.

Former assets

Buses

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]

Car ferries

Hurtigruten AS operated a number of roll-on/roll-off car ferries in Nordland, Troms, Finnmark and Møre og Romsdal.

Hotels

Hurtigruten AS owned two hotels in Bergen; Neptun Hotel and Strand Hotel. The hotels were sold to Bergen Hotel in 2008.[13]

Current fleet

As of 2020, Hurtigruten AS operates 16 ships in its fleet:[14]

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References

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    Lysvold, Susanne (6 December 2012). "Hurtigruten legger ned i Narvik og flytter til Tromsø". NRK (in Norwegian). Retrieved 12 April 2015.
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    "'Hurtigruten' (Norwegian Coastal Express) ferry, and coastal cruises". Archived from the original on 19 September 2013. Retrieved 26 August 2013.
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    "Eies via Luxembourg: Dette er aktørene bak Hurtigruten".
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    "Hurtigruten omorganiserer – skiller rutetrafikk og ekspedisjonscruise". 15 October 2020.
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    Eilertsen, Hege (28 November 2017). "Hurtigruten First To Use Hybrid-Fueled Expedition Vessels". High North News. Translated by Bergquist, Elisabeth. Retrieved 13 September 2020.
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    Vaeng Sæbbe, Linda (3 February 2015). "Slik blir hovedkontoret, form og styret i nye Hurtigruten AS". Vest 24 (in Norwegian). Retrieved 12 April 2015.
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    Hurtigruten: Ships Archived 8 April 2015 at the Wayback Machine . Accessed 13 April 2015
  8. [8]
    "Hurtigruten: Antarctica cruises". Archived from the original on 4 September 2013. Retrieved 26 August 2013.
  9. [9]
    "Hurtigruten: Iceland cruises". Archived from the original on 15 August 2013. Retrieved 26 August 2013.
  10. [10]
    "Hurtigruten: European cruises". Archived from the original on 21 September 2013. Retrieved 26 August 2013.
  11. [11]
    "Hurtigruten: Trans-Atlantic Voyage cruises". Archived from the original on 15 August 2013. Retrieved 26 August 2013.
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    Bjørklund, Marco (9 July 2014). "TIRB er solgt". Troms Folkeblad. Archived from the original on 11 August 2014.
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    "Bergen Hotel overtar Hurtigruten Hotels". Horecanytt. 19 June 2008. Archived from the original on 8 August 2014.
  14. [14]
    "Our ships". global.hurtigruten.com. Retrieved 13 September 2020.
  15. [15]
    "MS Nordstjernen". global.hurtigruten.com. Retrieved 13 September 2020.
  16. [16]
    "MS Lofoten". global.hurtigruten.com. Retrieved 13 September 2020.
  17. [17]
    "MS Vesterålen". global.hurtigruten.com. Retrieved 13 September 2020.
  18. [18]
    "MS Kong Harald". global.hurtigruten.com. Retrieved 13 September 2020.
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    "MS Richard With". global.hurtigruten.com. Retrieved 13 September 2020.
  20. [20]
    "MS Nordlys". global.hurtigruten.com. Retrieved 13 September 2020.
  21. [21]
    "MS Polarlys". global.hurtigruten.com. Retrieved 13 September 2020.
  22. [22]
    "MS Nordkapp". global.hurtigruten.com. Retrieved 13 September 2020.
  23. [23]
    "MS Nordnorge". global.hurtigruten.com. Retrieved 13 September 2020.
  24. [24]
    "MS Otto Sverdrup". global.hurtigruten.com. Retrieved 13 September 2020.
  25. [25]
    "MS Trollfjord". global.hurtigruten.com. Retrieved 13 September 2020.
  26. [26]
    "MS Maud". global.hurtigruten.com. Retrieved 13 September 2020.
  27. [27]
    "MS Midnatsol". global.hurtigruten.com. Retrieved 13 September 2020.
  28. [28]
    "MS Fram". global.hurtigruten.com. Retrieved 13 September 2020.
  29. [29]
    "MS Spitsbergen". global.hurtigruten.com. Retrieved 13 September 2020.
  30. [30]
    "MS Roald Amundsen". global.hurtigruten.com. Retrieved 13 September 2020.
  31. [31]
    "MS Fridtjof Nansen". global.hurtigruten.com. Retrieved 13 September 2020.
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