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Holland America Line

Headquarters: Seattle
Founded: 1873
Employees: —

Official website

Photo: Riki1979 013-01-25 · Public domain · 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

1,264,685

Summed over 19 ships reporting tonnage

In brief

What Holland America Line is

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Holland America Line N.V. (HAL) is an American cruise line operating as a subsidiary of Carnival Corporation & plc. Founded in 1873 in Rotterdam, Netherlands, as the Netherlands-America Steamship Company (NASM), the company operated regular transatlantic passenger and cargo services between Rotterdam and North America until 1971. As a dedicated cruise line, the company expanded through multiple acquisitions including Westours in 1971, Windstar Cruises in 1988, and Home Lines in 1988. In 1989, the company was acquired by Carnival Corporation.

Headquartered in Seattle, Washington, the line's cruise ships carry the names of former transatlantic ocean liners operated by the company. Its current flagship, Rotterdam (2020), is the seventh ship to bear such a name. As a major operator of cruises and overland tours in Alaska, the company owns multiple hotels and two railroads throughout the state. The line also offers an annual world cruise and cruises throughout the Caribbean, South America, Europe, Asia, and Antarctica.

Origin

Who founded it

Holland America Line was founded in 1873 by 2 named founders on record. Portraits are shown only where a freely licensed photograph exists and its photographer is known.

Founder

Otto Reuchlin

1842–1924

(1842-1924)

Photo: Vervaardiger van de foto is onbekend. · CC BY-SA 4.0 · file

Founder

Antoine Plate

1845–1927

Dutch politician (1845-1927)

Photo: author not stated · Public domain · file

Corporate profile

Identity and registration

Legal name: —
Industry: water transport
Legal form: naamloze vennootschap
Country of registration: United States
Headquarters: Seattle
Formed in: —
Founded: 1873
Dissolved: —
Employees: —
Head office coordinates: 47.6050, -122.3300

Ships on record here: 22
Vessel types operated: 2
Flag states used: 5
Average vessel age: 30.8 years
Oldest vessel on record: 1938
Newest vessel on record: 2021
Largest vessel by tonnage: 99,836
Average tonnage: 66,562
Market share: —
Parent company: Carnival Corporation
Alliance: —
Record source: wikidata
Last refreshed: 2026-09-05

Fleet on record

What this company sails

Composition of the 22 vessels this registry attributes to Holland America Line. Bars are true proportions of that set, not of the company's full fleet.

By vessel type

By flag state

By shipbuilder

Fincantieri15

Wilton-Fijenoord2

Chantiers de l'Atlantique1

Royal IHC1

T. Mariotti1

Rotterdamsche Droogdok Maatschappij1

Cockerill Yards1

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. 4 deliveries fall inside this window.

Year	Ships delivered	Gross tonnage added	Fleet on record
2017	1	40,350	19
2018	2	139,850	21
2019	0	—	21
2020	0	—	21
2021	1	99,500	22
2022	0	—	22
2023	0	—	22
2024	0	—	22
2025	0	—	22
2026	0	—	22

Vessel records

Ships on record · Cruise ship

Show all types

Ship	IMO	Type	Flag	Built	Gross tonnage	Deadweight	Length	Builder
MS Koningsdam	9692557	Cruise ship	Netherlands	2016	99,836	—	296.0 m	Fincantieri
MS Nieuw Statendam	9767106	Cruise ship	Netherlands	2018	99,500	—	299.5 m	Fincantieri
Rotterdam	9837470	Cruise ship	Netherlands	2021	99,500	—	296.0 m	Fincantieri
MS Eurodam	9378448	Cruise ship	Netherlands	2008	86,273	9,125	285.4 m	Fincantieri
Nieuw Amsterdam	9378450	Cruise ship	Netherlands	2010	86,273	—	285.2 m	Fincantieri
MS Westerdam	9226891	Cruise ship	Netherlands	2004	82,862	—	285.0 m	Fincantieri
MS Zuiderdam	9221279	Cruise ship	Netherlands	2002	82,820	10,965	285.4 m	Fincantieri
Oosterdam	9221281	Cruise ship	Netherlands	2003	82,820	10,965	285.0 m	Fincantieri
MS Noordam	9230115	Cruise ship	Netherlands	2006	82,318	10,939	285.0 m	Fincantieri
Borealis	9122552	Cruise ship	Netherlands	1997	61,849	6,351	237.5 m	Fincantieri
MS Zaandam	9156527	Cruise ship	Netherlands	2000	61,396	6,150	237.0 m	Fincantieri
MS Volendam	9156515	Cruise ship	Netherlands	1999	61,214	—	237.9 m	Fincantieri
Aegean Majesty	9102992	Cruise ship	Netherlands	1996	57,092	—	220.0 m	Fincantieri
MV Seabourn Ovation	9764958	Cruise ship	The Bahamas	2018	40,350	4,797	210.0 m	Fincantieri
Seabourn Encore	9731171	Cruise ship	The Bahamas	2017	40,350	—	210.0 m	Fincantieri
Nieuw Amsterdam	5251719	Cruise ship	Netherlands	1938	36,982	8,735	231.2 m	Rotterdamsche Droogdok Maatschappij
MS Thomson Spirit	8024014	Cruise ship	Palau	1983	33,930	—	214.7 m	Chantiers de l'Atlantique
MITSUI OCEAN SAKURA	9417098	Cruise ship	The Bahamas	2010	32,346	—	198.2 m	T. Mariotti
MS Prinsendam	7224734	Cruise ship	—	1973	—	—	130.3 m	Royal IHC
SS Rijndam	5302776	Cruise ship	Greece	1951	—	—	153.4 m	Wilton-Fijenoord
TSS Stefan Batory	5216147	Cruise ship	Netherlands	1952	—	—	153.4 m	Wilton-Fijenoord

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 Holland America Line compares

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

With 22 vessels attributed to it here, Holland America Line is the 35th 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.

United States is the country of registration for 144 commercial operators in this directory, among which Holland America Line ranks 4th by ships on record. Between them those companies hold 435 vessels here. 1 of them carry a published container-capacity ranking. See every operator registered in United States.

Founded in 1873, Holland America Line is 153 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.