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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
2,385,311
Summed over 21 ships reporting tonnage
In brief
Norwegian Cruise Line (NCL) is an American cruise line founded in Norway in 1966. The company's headquarters are in Miami-Dade County, Florida, and incorporated in the Bahamas. It is the fourth-largest cruise line in the world by passengers, controlling about 8.6% of the total worldwide share of the cruise market by passengers as of 2021. It is wholly owned by parent company Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings.
Corporate profile
Corporate structure
Parent company
Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings Ltd.
Services and products
Fleet on record
Composition of the 21 vessels this registry attributes to Norwegian Cruise Line. Bars are true proportions of that set, not of the company's full fleet.
By vessel type
By shipbuilder
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. 6 deliveries fall inside this window.
| Year | Deliveries | Ships delivered | Gross tonnage added | Fleet on record |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 1 | 167,725 | 15 | |
| 2018 | 1 | 168,028 | 16 | |
| 2019 | 1 | 168,800 | 17 | |
| 2020 | 0 | — | 17 | |
| 2021 | 0 | — | 17 | |
| 2022 | 1 | 143,535 | 18 | |
| 2023 | 1 | 143,535 | 19 | |
| 2024 | 0 | — | 19 | |
| 2025 | 1 | 154,140 | 20 | |
| 2026 | 0 | — | 20 |
Vessel records
| Ship | IMO | Type | Flag | Built | Gross tonnage | Deadweight | Length | Builder |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9751511 | Cruise ship | The Bahamas | 2019 | 168,800 | 11,700 | — | Meyer Werft | |
| 9751509 | Cruise ship | The Bahamas | 2018 | 168,028 | 11,700 | 333.3 m | Meyer Werft | |
| 9703796 | Cruise ship | The Bahamas | 2017 | 167,725 | 11,700 | 333.5 m | Meyer Werft | |
| 9677076 | Cruise ship | The Bahamas | 2015 | 164,600 | 15,000 | 324.0 m | Meyer Werft | |
| 9410569 | Cruise ship | The Bahamas | 2010 | 155,873 | 10,850 | 329.4 m | Chantiers de l'Atlantique | |
| 9824007 | Cruise ship | The Bahamas | 2025 | 154,140 | — | 321.8 m | Fincantieri | |
| 9606912 | Cruise ship | The Bahamas | 2013 | 145,655 | — | 325.6 m | Meyer Werft | |
| 9606924 | Cruise ship | The Bahamas | 2014 | 145,655 | — | 325.6 m | Meyer Werft | |
| 9823986 | Cruise ship | The Bahamas | 2022 | 143,535 | — | 299.0 m | Fincantieri | |
| 9823998 | Cruise ship | The Bahamas | 2023 | 143,535 | — | 293.4 m | Fincantieri | |
| 9304057 | Cruise ship | The Bahamas | 2006 | 93,558 | — | 294.1 m | Meyer Werft | |
| 9355733 | Cruise ship | Germany | 2007 | 93,530 | — | 294.1 m | Meyer Werft | |
| 9342281 | Cruise ship | Germany | 2006 | 93,530 | — | 295.0 m | Meyer Werft | |
| 9304045 | Cruise ship | Germany | 2005 | 93,502 | 7,500 | 294.1 m | Meyer Werft | |
| 9195169 | Cruise ship | Germany | 2001 | 92,250 | 7,500 | 294.1 m | Meyer Werft | |
| 9195157 | Cruise ship | The Bahamas | 2001 | 91,740 | 7,500 | 294.1 m | Meyer Werft | |
| 9209221 | Cruise ship | United States | 2005 | 80,439 | 8,260 | 280.6 m | Ingalls Shipbuilding | |
| 5119143 | Cruise ship | Norway | — | 76,049 | — | 315.5 m | Chantiers de l'Atlantique | |
| 9141065 | Cruise ship | The Bahamas | 1998 | 75,904 | — | 268.6 m | Meyer Werft | |
| 5160180 | Cruise ship | United States | 1951 | 20,221 | — | 208.0 m | Bethlehem Steel | |
| 7211517 | Cruise ship | Panama | 1972 | 17,042 | — | 163.3 m | Cantiere navale di Riva Trigoso |
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 21 vessels attributed to it here, Norwegian Cruise Line is the 39th 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 Norwegian Cruise Line ranks 5th 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 1966, Norwegian Cruise Line is 60 years old. This directory holds 95 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.
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Provenance
Company and vessel recordsWikidata item Q130309, released under CC0. Counted figures on this page are counts over those records.
Written summaryQuoted from Norwegian Cruise Line on English Wikipedia, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Published fleet figuresNo published fleet figure is available for this company.