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Viking Makes £400 Million Deal For Two New Vessels In Exciting Partnership

Viking Cruises has just signed a letter of intent for the design and construction of two new cruise vessels. The contract with Fincantieri subsidiary Vard Holdings Limited is worth potentially £401m and also includes an option for two more vessels. Vard and Viking’s deal is not related to last month’s announcement that the cruise line has planned to launch six additional ships between 2024 and 2027. The shipyard has confirmed that Viking will work closely with Vard Design in Norway to develop the new vessels. The delivery of the ships are scheduled from Vard in Norway in 2021 and...

Viking Agrees to Six More Ocean Ships To Show Guests ‘The Viking Way Of Exploration’

Viking has agreed to deal with Fincantieri Shipyard to build six new ocean ships, bringing the ship’s ocean fleet to sixteen. The agreement with the Italian manufacturer for the new vessels would increase the ship’s ocean fleet to 16 if all the options are taken up. Viking has revealed the six additional ships will be delivered between 2024 and 2027 and that the agreement is subject to “specific conditions”. The announcement comes ahead of Viking officially naming its fourth ocean ship, Viking Sun, on March 8th in Shanghai. The ocean fleet will welcome two more ships in the next two years,...

Viking Announce Sixth Ocean Ship & Make Record With Stop At Glamorous Port

Viking Ocean Cruises, whilst celebrating their first ever cruise stop in Los Angeles, announced that their sixth ocean cruise ship will be called Viking Jupiter and will debut in early 2019. Viking Sun stopped in Los Angeles last week which marked the cruise line’s first visit to the city; the ship is currently sailing Viking’s sold-out 141-day World Cruise from Miami to London. Viking Jupiter will be with guests by February 2019 and the 930-guest sister ship will sail the line’s most popular itineraries in Northern Europe and the Mediterranean, as well as two new itineraries in South America:...

Viking Ocean Fleet To Reach Ten Ships As Four Are Added To The Order

Viking Ocean Cruises has just revealed to fans that there will be four more ocean cruise ships built, bringing the fleet to ten. The announcement from Fincantieri has further solidified Viking’s position as the largest small ship cruise line. In April this year, Viking announced the construction of two cruise ships, the seventh and eight for Viking, along with an option for two additional ships. The option for the two additional ships has now become a reality and will be the first of these four ships; one will be delivered in 2021, followed by two in 2022 and the...

Viking Brings Canoes, Bikes & Other Major Activities To Your Next River Cruise

Viking River Cruises has just revealed it will be adding active choices on several European itineraries in 2018 and 2019, including canoeing, biking and electronic-biking tours. Among the new excursions are wetlands canoeing on the Elbe, Danube (near Vienna), Moselle and Normandy (on a tributary of the Seine) rivers, as well as bike and e-bike tours in Austria’s Wachau Valley and around the windmills of Kinderdijk. In the Black Forest, one tour will allow passengers to bike through vineyards, then visit a home for coffee and cake. The active excursions will have an extra fee and Viking will not...