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Birka Cruises

Dissolved 2020

Headquarters: Stockholm
Founded: 1971
Employees: —

Official website

Photo: Arild Vågen · CC BY-SA 3.0 · file

Ships in this registry

Counted from individual vessel records · Wikidata

Reported fleet size

—

No published figure available

Container capacity

—

Not a ranked container line

Gross tonnage on record

21,484

Summed over 1 ships reporting tonnage

In brief

What Birka Cruises is

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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

Identity and registration

Legal name: —
Industry: transport
Legal form: —
Country of registration: Sweden
Headquarters: Stockholm
Formed in: —
Founded: 1971
Dissolved: 2020
Employees: —
Head office coordinates: 59.3294, 18.0686

Ships on record here: 1
Vessel types operated: 1
Flag states used: 1
Average vessel age: 40.0 years
Oldest vessel on record: 1986
Newest vessel on record: 1986
Largest vessel by tonnage: 21,484
Average tonnage: 21,484
Market share: —
Parent company: Rederiaktiebolaget Eckerö
Alliance: —
Record source: wikidata
Last refreshed: 2026-09-05

Fleet on record

What this company sails

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.

By vessel type

Cruise ship1

By flag state

Malta1

By shipbuilder

Valmet1

Delivery history

10-year fleet record

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	Gross tonnage added	Fleet on record
2017	—	1
2018	—	1
2019	—	1
2020	—	1
2021	—	1
2022	—	1
2023	—	1
2024	—	1
2025	—	1
2026	—	1

Vessel records

Ships on record

1 vessels

Ship	IMO	Type	Flag	Built	Gross tonnage	Deadweight	Length	Builder
Sea Diamond	8406731	Cruise ship	Malta	1986	21,484	—	142.9 m	Valmet

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.

In context

How Birka Cruises compares

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.