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Reported fleet size
—
No published figure available
Container capacity
—
Not a ranked container line
Gross tonnage on record
173,333
Summed over 4 ships reporting tonnage
In brief
Viking Line Abp is an Åland-based shipping company that operates a fleet of ferries and cruiseferries between Åland, mainland Finland, Sweden and Estonia. The company is headquartered in Mariehamn, Åland, and Viking Line shares are quoted on the Helsinki Stock Exchange. Viking Line currently operates five ferries, of which four serve routes to Stockholm and one operates to Tallinn.
The activities of Viking Line include route trips, cruises and cargo traffic. In 2025, Viking Line employed an average of 2,441 people both on land and on sea.
Origin
Viking Line was founded in 1959 in Åland by one named founder on record. Portraits are shown only where a freely licensed photograph exists and its photographer is known.
Founder
Gunnar Eklund
1916–2009
Corporate profile
Fleet on record
Composition of the 5 vessels this registry attributes to Viking Line. Bars are true proportions of that set, not of the company's full fleet.
By flag state
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 | — | 4 | |
| 2018 | 0 | — | 4 | |
| 2019 | 0 | — | 4 | |
| 2020 | 0 |
Vessel records
| Ship | IMO | Type | Flag | Built | Gross tonnage | Deadweight | Length | Builder |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9827877 | Cruise ship | Finland | 2022 | 63,000 | — | 218.0 m | Xiamen Shipbuilding Industry | |
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 5 vessels attributed to it here, Viking Line is the 174th 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.
Finland is the country of registration for 29 commercial operators in this directory, among which Viking Line ranks 3rd by ships on record. Between them those companies hold 64 vessels here. See every operator registered in Finland.
Founded in 1959, Viking Line is 67 years old. This directory holds 66 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 Q1544900, released under CC0. Counted figures on this page are counts over those records.
Written summaryQuoted from Viking Line on English Wikipedia, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Published fleet figuresNo published fleet figure is available for this company.
By shipbuilder
| — |
| 4 |
| 2021 | 0 | — | 4 |
| 2022 | 1 | 63,000 | 5 |
| 2023 | 0 | — | 5 |
| 2024 | 0 | — | 5 |
| 2025 | 0 | — | 5 |
| 2026 | 0 | — | 5 |
| 9606900 |
| Ro-Ro |
| Finland |
| 2013 |
| 57,565 |
| — |
| 218.0 m |
| STX Finland |
| 9375654 | Ferry | Estonia | 2007 | 35,918 | — | 329.0 m | Aker Finnyards |
| 7901265 | Unclassified | Finland | 1980 | 16,850 | — | 136.1 m | Wärtsilä |
| 7018599 | Ferry | Honduras | 1970 | — | — | 108.7 m | Meyer Werft |
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.
Eckerö Line
3 on record · est. 1995
