Viking River Cruises announced details of the newest addition to its river fleet, Viking Ra™. Recently acquired, the vessel has been stripped down to the steel to undergo a complete renovation that will reflect Viking’s award-winning Scandinavian design. (more…)
Viking Cruises announced it has signed on to sponsor National Geographic’s first fully scripted global anthology series, “Genius,” which in its debut season tells the story of the 20th century’s most brilliant icon, Albert Einstein. (more…)
Viking Chairman Torstein Hagen announced more news for Viking River Cruises and added that it will be the first foreign company allowed to have a license to operate ships along the Nile River. (travelagentcentral.com)
Viking River Cruises today (March 7) marked 20 years of innovation and growth by welcoming two new additions to its fleet of Viking Longships®. (more…)
Viking Cruises, the deep sea and river cruise operator, has announced details of a new promotion for the travel trade, in celebration of the company’s 20th anniversary. (cruisebusiness.com)
Viking Star, Viking Ocean Cruises’ first ocean-going vessel, has arrived to the United States and is about to begin its inaugural Caribbean season. (cruisecritic.com)
Viking River Cruises’ eventual move into the North American domestic waterways market is appearing to still be going forward, according to filings with the United States Patent and Trademark Office. (cruiseindustrynews.com)
Viking River Cruises will offer its first European river sailings on a ship dedicated to Chinese cruisers later this fall. (cruisecritic.com)
The recent news that TPG Capital and the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB) put up $500 million for a combined 17 percent stake in MISA Investments Limited (the parent company of Viking Cruises) have led to more insight about the company’s ownership structure and future plans. (cruiseindustrynews.com)
TPG Capital and Canada Pension Plan Investment Board have invested $500 million for a minority stake in MISA Investments Limited, the parent company of Viking Cruises. (pehub.com)
Two officers navigating the Viking River Cruises cruise ship Viking Freya were killed overnight when the vessel struck a bridge on Main-Donau-Kanal in Erlangen, Germany. (gcaptain.com)
Viking River Cruises’ Viking Freya crashed into a bridge in Erlangen, Germany, in the middle of the night, killing two crewmembers and destroying the wheelhouse. According to a company statement, no passengers or other crewmembers were injured. (cruisecritic.com)
Viking Ingvi in Cologne (Photo Rolf Heinrich, Köln)
The Ingvi is a sister ship to the dozens of 190-passenger “long boat class” Viking riverboats entering service since 2012. (Steven B Stern)
Viking Mani, one of Viking’s Longships, sustained minor damage after being hit by a small cargo ship last week while sailing on the Rhine River. (cruisecritic.com)
Viking River Cruises is delaying its entry to the Mississippi River market by at least a year. In 2015, Viking had announced two newbuilds for the Mississippi to debut in 2017, to be followed by four more. (cruiseindustrynews.com)
Today (March 1st) the world’s largest river cruise line, Viking Cruises, continued to expand with the christening of six new river boats in Europe. (cruisecritic.com)
O’Connell will be in Amsterdam on March 1, along with five additional godmothers, as all will christen a total of six new Viking Longships simultaneously. (travelagentcentral.com)
Damen Shiprepair Amsterdam (DSAm), part of Damen Shiprepair & Conversion, is currently undertaking a substantial modification and maintenance contract for six inland cruise vessels owned by Viking River Cruises. (more…)
The city of Davenport is considering an alternative to the proposed downtown docking site for Viking River Cruises boats along the Mississippi River, riling outgoing Mayor Bill Gluba. (washingtontimes.com)
Tor Hagen is nothing if not bold. The brash founder of Viking River Cruises and Viking Ocean Cruises obviously subscribes to the “build it and they will come” theory. (travelpulse.com)
Viking Ocean Cruises Chairman and CEO Torstein Hagen will be facing corruption charges, along with the mayor of Bergen and the harbor master of the port of Bergen, according to Norwegian news sources. (cruiseindustrynews.com)
Travel wholesaler Tourico Holidays has introduced host-to-host XML connectivity between its cruise line partners and its travel distribution clients, as well as partnered with Viking Cruises to broker more than 2,000 cruises to the company’s 4,900 clients worldwide. (travelagentcentral.com)
The 10-night “Kiev to the Black Sea” itinerary, slated for May and June 2016, will be on 196-passegenger Viking Sineus. Built in 1979, the vessel was renamed (from Viking Lomonosov) and refurbished in 2014. (cruisecritic.com)
Viking River Cruises announced Tuesday it has renewed its national corporate sponsorship of PBS’ celebrated series Masterpiece for another year. (cruisebusiness.com)
Continuing low water levels on European rivers forced the cancellation of several scheduled cruises on both the Elbe River or Danube River this past weekend. (travelagentcentral.com)
With the Viking Star launching earlier this year, Viking Ocean Cruises looked poised to take over a significant niche in the cruise industry with three more 930-passengers ships on the way to join the fleet before 2017 was out. (cruiseindustrynews.com)
Continuing its frenetic pace of building new ships, Viking Cruises christened 12 new river vessels in Europe today (March 24), bringing the total number of ships in its fleet to 60. (cruisecritic.com)
Today, Governor Bobby Jindal of Louisana and Viking Cruises Chairman Torstein Hagen announced the selection of New Orleans as the homeport for Viking River Cruises’ first North American river cruise itineraries, starting in late 2017. (cruiseindustrynews.com)
Viking River Cruises extended its partnership with the MASTERPIECE series, providing more hours of programming on PBS stations in 2015. (travelagentcentral.com)
Viking River Cruises, the Basel based river cruise line, has placed an order for six Longship class river cruise vessels with Neptun Werft in Rostock. (cruisebusiness.com)
It just might the most successful television sponsorship for a major travel company—and now it’s going to continue through 2015. (travelpulse.com)
Viking has ordered 12 new river vessels for next year – 10 additional Viking Longships and two vessels for the Elbe River. (travelagentcentral.com)
