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water transport

Festival Cruises

Dissolved 2004

Headquarters: Greece
Founded: 1992
Employees: —

Ships in this registry

Counted from individual vessel records · Wikidata

Reported fleet size

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Gross tonnage on record

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Summed over 0 ships reporting tonnage

In brief

What Festival Cruises is

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Festival Cruises (known as First European Cruises in North America) was a Greece-based cruise line that operated between 1994 and 2004. It was founded in 1992 by the Greek entrepreneur George Poulides using second-hand ships. The company acquired three new-built ships between 1999 and 2002, but was forced to declare bankruptcy in 2004.

Quoted from Festival Cruises on English Wikipedia, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Corporate profile

Identity and registration

Legal name: —
Industry: water transport
Legal form: joint-stock company
Country of registration: Italy
Headquarters: Greece
Formed in: —
Founded: 1992
Dissolved: 2004
Employees: —
Head office coordinates: 38.5000, 23.0000

Ships on record here: 0
Vessel types operated: —
Flag states used: —
Average vessel age: —
Oldest vessel on record: —
Newest vessel on record: —
Largest vessel by tonnage: —
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Market share: —
Parent company: —
Alliance: —
Record source: wikidata
Last refreshed: 2026-09-05

Vessel records

Ships on record

0 vessels

No individual ships attributed to this company yet

The company is on record, but no vessel in the registry currently names it as operator or owner. Nothing is invented to fill this space.

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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 Festival Cruises compares

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

Italy is the country of registration for 40 commercial operators in this directory, among which Festival Cruises ranks 32nd by ships on record. Between them those companies hold 256 vessels here. 1 of them carry a published container-capacity ranking. See every operator registered in Italy.

Founded in 1992, Festival Cruises is 34 years old. This directory holds 140 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.