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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
8,378
Summed over 1 ships reporting tonnage
In brief
Heritage Expeditions is an expedition cruise tourism company operating from Christchurch, New Zealand. The company was established by the Russ family, and currently offers a range of expedition cruises and excursions in Antarctica, Subantarctic, New Zealand, Australia, the South Pacific and Japan. As of 2023, the company operates two cruise vessels, the Heritage Adventurer (accommodating 140 passengers), and the Heritage Explorer – an expedition yacht that accommodates 18 passengers. In February 2026, Heritage Expeditions announced that the expedition cruise vessel Exploris One would join their fleet in May 2027 and be renamed as Heritage Discoverer.
Corporate profile
Fleet on record
Composition of the 1 vessels this registry attributes to Heritage Expeditions. 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. No deliveries fall inside this window — this company’s vessels on record were all built earlier.
| Year | Deliveries | Ships delivered | Gross tonnage added | Fleet on record |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 0 | — | 1 | |
| 2018 | 0 | — | 1 | |
| 2019 | 0 | — | 1 | |
| 2020 | 0 | — | 1 | |
| 2021 | 0 | — | 1 | |
| 2022 | 0 | — | 1 | |
| 2023 | 0 | — | 1 | |
| 2024 | 0 | — | 1 | |
| 2025 | 0 | — | 1 | |
| 2026 | 0 | — | 1 |
Vessel records
| Ship | IMO | Type | Flag | Built | Gross tonnage | Deadweight | Length | Builder |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9000168 | Cruise ship | Portugal | 1991 | 8,378 | 1,177 | 122.8 m | Rauma-Repola |
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 1 vessels attributed to it here, Heritage Expeditions 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.
New Zealand is the country of registration for 9 commercial operators in this directory, among which Heritage Expeditions ranks 5th by ships on record. Between them those companies hold 14 vessels here. See every operator registered in New Zealand.
Founded in 1985, Heritage Expeditions is 41 years old. This directory holds 97 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 Q124153341, released under CC0. Counted figures on this page are counts over those records.
Written summaryQuoted from Heritage Expeditions on English Wikipedia, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Published fleet figuresNo published fleet figure is available for this company.
