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Reported fleet size
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No published figure available
Container capacity
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Not a ranked container line
Gross tonnage on record
21,484
Summed over 1 ships reporting tonnage
In brief
Birka Cruises (formerly Birka Line) was an Ålandian shipping company that operated a cruise ship on the Baltic Sea with Stockholm as the starting point under the name Birka Cruises. Birka Line has a cargo-shipping subsidiary, Birka Cargo. During the 1970s the company was often marketed as Ålandslinjen. Since May 2007 Birka Line has been a daughter company of Rederiaktiebolaget Eckerö.
In July 2020 Eckerö Line announced that it was shutting down its Birka Cruises subsidiary after 49 years of operation.
Corporate profile
Corporate structure
Parent company
Rederiaktiebolaget Eckerö
Services and products
Fleet on record
Composition of the 1 vessels this registry attributes to Birka Cruises. Bars are true proportions of that set, not of the company's full fleet.
Delivery history
Ships delivered in each of the last 10 years, counted from the recorded build year of vessels attributed to this company, with the running total of its fleet on record. No deliveries fall inside this window — this company’s vessels on record were all built earlier.
| Year | Deliveries | Ships delivered | Gross tonnage added | Fleet on record |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 0 | — | 1 | |
| 2018 | 0 | — | 1 | |
| 2019 | 0 | — | 1 | |
| 2020 |
Vessel records
| Ship | IMO | Type | Flag | Built | Gross tonnage | Deadweight | Length | Builder |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8406731 | Cruise ship | Malta | 1986 | 21,484 | — | 142.9 m | Valmet |
Ships in registry counts individual vessel records attributed to the company here. is the company’s published total. They measure different things and are shown separately on purpose.
In context
Counts over companies and vessels actually held in this directory — not over the world fleet, which is larger. Nothing here is estimated.
With 1 vessels attributed to it here, Birka Cruises is the 492nd largest of the 965 operators in this directory that hold at least one ship on record, against a median of 2 across that group. That is a count of individually identified hulls, not the company’s published fleet size — the two are different measurements and both are shown above where available.
Sweden is the country of registration for 56 commercial operators in this directory, among which Birka Cruises ranks 12th by ships on record. Between them those companies hold 90 vessels here. See every operator registered in Sweden.
Founded in 1971, Birka Cruises is 55 years old. This directory holds 115 operators founded within five years either side of that date, whose median fleet on record is 1 ships. The median founding year across all commercial operators here is 1966, and the oldest on record dates to 1514.
Same country
Provenance
Company and vessel recordsWikidata item Q4346374, released under CC0. Counted figures on this page are counts over those records.
Written summaryQuoted from Birka Cruises on English Wikipedia, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Published fleet figuresNo published fleet figure is available for this company.
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| 2021 | 0 | — | 1 |
| 2022 | 0 | — | 1 |
| 2023 | 0 | — | 1 |
| 2024 | 0 | — | 1 |
| 2025 | 0 | — | 1 |
| 2026 | 0 | — | 1 |
Swedish American Line
4 on record · est. 1915
