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Celestyal

Celestyal Cruises

Headquarters: Athens
Founded: 1986
Employees: —

Official website

Photo: Pjotr Mahhonin · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 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

137,143

Summed over 4 ships reporting tonnage

In brief

What Celestyal is

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Celestyal Cruises, formed in 2014, is a Greek cruise line, and the successor to Louis Cruises and Louis Cruise Lines. It was a subsidiary of Louis plc (founded in 1935 as the first travel agency in Cyprus) until November 2021 when Searchlight Capital Partners took a majority share.
Celestyal Cruises has two cruise ships: the MS Celestyal Discovery and the MS Celestyal Journey. The cruise line operates out of Athens, Greece, offering itineraries on a 3-, 4-, and 7-night basis around the Greek islands, Turkey, and the Eastern Mediterranean. It is reported that it carried 115,000 guests in 2019. Celestyal Cruises operated for six years in Cuba until 2018 and historically chartered ships to Marella Cruises, previously Thomson Cruises.

Corporate profile

Identity and registration

Legal name: Celestyal Cruises
Industry: cruise
Legal form: privately held company
Country of registration: Greece
Headquarters: Athens
Formed in: Athens
Founded: 1986
Dissolved: —
Employees: —
Listed on: —
Ticker: —
ISIN
Legal Entity Identifier: 549300UCL9HIVTYTQX26
Head office coordinates: 37.9842, 23.7281

Ships on record here: 4
Vessel types operated: 2
Flag states used: 3
Average vessel age: 48.3 years
Oldest vessel on record: 1956
Newest vessel on record: 2003
Largest vessel by tonnage: 55,877
Average tonnage: 34,286
Market share: —
Parent company: Searchlight Capital
Alliance: —
Record source: wikidata

Fleet on record

What this company sails

Composition of the 4 vessels this registry attributes to Celestyal. Bars are true proportions of that set, not of the company's full fleet.

By vessel type

Cruise ship3

Passenger vessel1

By flag state

Saint Kitts and Nevis2

Italy1

United Kingdom1

By shipbuilder

Fincantieri2

Meyer Wismar1

Newport News Shipbuilding1

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	—	4
2018	—	4
2019	—	4
2020	—	4
2021	—	4
2022	—	4
2023	—	4
2024	—	4
2025	—	4
2026	—	4

Vessel records

Ships on record

4 vessels

Ship	IMO	Type	Flag	Built	Gross tonnage	Deadweight	Length	Builder
Celestyal Journey	8919269	Cruise ship	United Kingdom	1994	55,877	5,709	219.0 m	Fincantieri
Celestyal Discovery	9221566	Cruise ship	Italy	2003	42,289	4,157	202.8 m	Meyer Wismar
SS Emerald	5312824	Cruise ship	Saint Kitts and Nevis	1958	26,428	8,713	177.9 m	Newport News Shipbuilding
SS Ausonia	5031078	Passenger vessel	Saint Kitts and Nevis	1956	12,549	—	159.3 m	Fincantieri

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 Celestyal compares

Counts over companies and vessels actually held in this directory — not over the world fleet, which is larger. Nothing here is estimated.

With 4 vessels attributed to it here, Celestyal is the 213th 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.

Greece is the country of registration for 15 commercial operators in this directory, among which Celestyal ranks 1st by ships on record. Between them those companies hold 21 vessels here. See every operator registered in Greece.

Founded in 1986, Celestyal is 40 years old. This directory holds 98 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.

Provenance

Where this page comes from

Company and vessel recordsWikidata item Q6686948, released under CC0. Counted figures on this page are counts over those records.

Written summaryQuoted from Celestyal Cruises on English Wikipedia, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Published fleet figuresNo published fleet figure is available for this company.