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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
260,247
Summed over 6 ships reporting tonnage
In brief
Color Line AS is a Norwegian shipping company that is the largest cruiseferry line operating on routes to and from Norway. The company is also one of the leading operators in Europe. Color Line provides transportation for people and cargo, hotel accommodation, shopping, restaurants and entertainment. The company currently employs 3500 people in four countries.
Color Line's main office is in Oslo, but the company also has Norwegian offices in Kristiansand, Sandefjord and Larvik, in addition to international offices in Kiel, Hirtshals and Strömstad.
Corporate profile
Reported financials
Published company figures for a single reported year, shown together so they are comparable. Figures from other years are not mixed in — a page that pairs one year's revenue with another's assets misreports both.
Revenue
1.1bn Norwegian krone
Reported for 2024
Corporate structure
Parent company
Color Group
Owned by
Subsidiaries and units (1)
Fleet on record
Composition of the 6 vessels this registry attributes to Color Line. 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. 1 deliveries fall inside this window.
| Year | Deliveries | Ships delivered | Gross tonnage added | Fleet on record |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 0 | — | 5 | |
| 2018 | 0 | — | 5 | |
| 2019 | 1 | 30,000 | 6 | |
| 2020 | 0 |
Vessel records
| Ship | IMO | Type | Flag | Built | Gross tonnage | Deadweight | Length | Builder |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9349863 | Ferry | Norway | 2007 | 75,156 | 4,750 | 223.8 m | Aker Finnyards | |
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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 6 vessels attributed to it here, Color Line is the 148th 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.
Norway is the country of registration for 150 commercial operators in this directory, among which Color Line ranks 30th by ships on record. Between them those companies hold 831 vessels here. See every operator registered in Norway.
Founded in 1994, Color Line is 32 years old. This directory holds 149 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 Q702833, released under CC0. Counted figures on this page are counts over those records.
Written summaryQuoted from Color Line (ferry operator) on English Wikipedia, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Published fleet figuresNo published fleet figure is available for this company.
| — |
| 6 |
| 2021 | 0 | — | 6 |
| 2022 | 0 | — | 6 |
| 2023 | 0 | — | 6 |
| 2024 | 0 | — | 6 |
| 2025 | 0 | — | 6 |
| 2026 | 0 | — | 6 |
| 9278234 |
| Ferry |
| Norway |
| 2004 |
| 75,027 |
| — |
| 223.8 m |
| Kvaerner Masa-Yards |
| 9374519 | Ro-Ro | Norway | 2008 | 34,231 | — | 211.3 m | Aker Finnyards |
| 9378682 | Ro-Ro | Norway | 2008 | 34,231 | — | 211.3 m | Aker Finnyards |
| 9824289 | Ro-Ro | Norway | 2019 | 30,000 | 3,258 | 160.0 m | Ulstein Group |
| 8317942 | Ro-Ro | Norway | 1985 | 11,602 | 2,238 | 134.0 m | Nakskov Skibsværft |
Ships in registry counts individual vessel records attributed to the company here. Reported fleet is the company’s published total. They measure different things and are shown separately on purpose.
DOF Management
25 on record · est. 1998
