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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
201,425
Summed over 3 ships reporting tonnage
In brief
Explora Journeys is a Geneva, Switzerland-based cruise line that was founded in 2021 as the luxury cruise division of Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC). It is a sister company of MSC Cruises.
Corporate profile
Corporate structure
Parent company
Mediterranean Shipping Company
Fleet on record
Composition of the 3 vessels this registry attributes to Explora Journeys. 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. 3 deliveries fall inside this window.
| Year | Deliveries | Ships delivered | Gross tonnage added | Fleet on record |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 0 | — | 0 | |
| 2018 | 0 | — | 0 | |
| 2019 | 0 | — | 0 | |
| 2020 | 0 | — | 0 | |
| 2021 | 0 | — | 0 | |
| 2022 | 0 | — | 0 | |
| 2023 | 1 | 63,621 | 1 | |
| 2024 | 1 | 63,900 | 2 | |
| 2025 | 0 | — | 2 | |
| 2026 | 1 | 73,904 | 3 |
Vessel records
| Ship | IMO | Type | Flag | Built | Gross tonnage | Deadweight | Length | Builder |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9869899 | Cruise ship | — | 2026 | 73,904 | — | 268.0 m | Fincantieri | |
| 9869887 | Cruise ship | Malta | 2024 | 63,900 | — | 249.0 m | Fincantieri | |
| 9869875 | Cruise ship | Malta | 2023 | 63,621 | — | 248.9 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
Counts over companies and vessels actually held in this directory — not over the world fleet, which is larger. Nothing here is estimated.
With 3 vessels attributed to it here, Explora Journeys is the 262nd 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.
Switzerland is the country of registration for 10 commercial operators in this directory, among which Explora Journeys ranks 4th by ships on record. Between them those companies hold 81 vessels here. 1 of them carry a published container-capacity ranking. See every operator registered in Switzerland.
Founded in 2021, Explora Journeys is 5 years old. This directory holds 43 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
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#1 by capacity · 36 on record · est. 1970

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26 on record · est. 1970
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11 on record · est. 1973
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2 on record · est. 2005
Médecins Sans Frontières
2 on record · est. 1971
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1 on record · est. 1995
Reisebüro Mittelthurgau
0 on record · est. 1969

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0 on record · est. 2013
Provenance
Company and vessel recordsWikidata item Q114357978, released under CC0. Counted figures on this page are counts over those records.
Written summaryQuoted from Explora Journeys on English Wikipedia, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Published fleet figuresNo published fleet figure is available for this company.