Origin
Who founded it
Viking River Cruises was founded in 1997 by one named founder on record. Portraits are shown only where a freely licensed photograph exists and its photographer is known.
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Reported fleet size
—
No published figure available
Container capacity
—
Not a ranked container line
Gross tonnage on record
5,594
Summed over 1 ships reporting tonnage
In brief
Viking (formerly Viking Cruises) is a cruise line providing river, ocean, and expedition cruises. Its operating headquarters are in Basel, Switzerland, and its marketing headquarters are in Los Angeles, California.
The company has three divisions, Viking River Cruises, Viking Ocean Cruises, and Viking Expeditions, offering cruises along the rivers and oceans of North and South America, the Caribbean, Antarctica, Great Lakes, Europe, Russia, Egypt, China, and Southeast Asia.
Origin
Viking River Cruises was founded in 1997 by one named founder on record. Portraits are shown only where a freely licensed photograph exists and its photographer is known.
Corporate profile
Corporate structure
Parent company
Viking Holdings Ltd
Owned by
Fleet on record
Composition of the 2 vessels this registry attributes to Viking River Cruises. 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 | — | 2 | |
| 2018 | 0 | — | 2 | |
| 2019 | 0 | — | 2 | |
| 2020 | 0 | — | 2 | |
| 2021 | 0 | — | 2 | |
| 2022 | 0 | — | 2 | |
| 2023 | 0 | — | 2 | |
| 2024 | 0 | — | 2 | |
| 2025 | 0 | — | 2 | |
| 2026 | 0 | — | 2 |
Vessel records
| Ship | IMO | Type | Flag | Built | Gross tonnage | Deadweight | Length | Builder |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8707680 | Cruise ship | — | 1987 | 5,594 | 493 | 129.1 m | Elbewerft Boizenburg | |
| 1212480 | Cruise ship | Switzerland | 2014 | — | — | 135.0 m | Meyer Werft |
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 2 vessels attributed to it here, Viking River Cruises is the 341st 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 Viking River Cruises ranks 33rd 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 1997, Viking River Cruises is 29 years old. This directory holds 150 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 Q2524174, released under CC0. Counted figures on this page are counts over those records.
Written summaryQuoted from Viking (cruise line) on English Wikipedia, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Published fleet figuresNo published fleet figure is available for this company.
