Viking Takes Delivery of Two New Ships Headed for ...

No firm has extra river ships all over the world and in Europe than Viking. And now, two extra are being added to the fleet.

Viking has formally taken supply of its two latest river ships, Viking Annar and Viking Fjolvar.

Each vessels have been constructed on the Meyer Neptun Werft shipyard in Germany and are making ready to start providing sailings in two completely different rivers in Europe.

The announcement comes proper on the heels of Viking increasing its ocean fleet as properly. Cruise Fever just lately reported on the supply of Viking’s newest ocean ship, exhibiting that the cruise line just isn’t slowing down its fleet development any time quickly.

The place the New Ships Are Going

These two new vessels are stepping proper into a few of Viking’s hottest European itineraries, however these ships are in two completely different lessons.

Viking Annar is a conventional, full-sized Viking Longship constructed to navigate the Rhine, Most important, and Danube rivers.

• It might probably accommodate 190 company throughout 95 staterooms.
• It options the normal Longship format with the patented sq. bow and the indoor/outside Aquavit Terrace.

Viking Fjolvar is a modified, barely shorter model of the Longship design constructed particularly for France’s Seine River.

• It might probably accommodate 168 company throughout 84 staterooms.
• The shorter configuration permits it to navigate the locks of the Seine and safe Viking’s unique docking location proper within the coronary heart of Paris.

A Take a look at the Whole Capability

Viking is already the most important participant on the rivers by a large margin. Wanting on the firm’s lineup, their river fleet sits at roughly 89 lively vessels.

These river ships alone have a complete fleet capability of about 15,000 company at full double occupancy.

As a aspect observe, simply final yr Viking celebrated a 100-ship milestone with vessels throughout all three classes: river, ocean, expedition.

The river fleet capability consists of smaller 106-guest vessels constructed for the tight turns of Portugal’s Douro River, specialised 98-guest ships for the shallow Elbe River, and customized 82-guest vessels constructed for the Nile.

The biggest ship by quantity is the Viking Mississippi, which accommodates 386 company.

Dedication to Lengthy-Time period Progress

Within the announcement of the 2 new ships being added to the fleet, Leah Talactac, President and CEO of Viking, acknowledged:

“We’re proud to welcome the Viking Annar and the Viking Fjolvar to our rising fleet of award-winning river ships.”

“Exploring by river presents an unmatched option to uncover a vacation spot’s historical past, tradition and native life, and these new vessels enable much more curious vacationers to expertise Europe in Viking consolation.”

Viking’s present orderbook exhibits that the cruise line continues to be very a lot targeted on its long-term technique. The corporate expects to take supply of twenty-two further river ships by 2028.

Viking additionally has 9 further ocean ships and two further expedition ships scheduled to hitch the worldwide fleet by 2031.

When these plans are realized, Viking will function an unprecedented 114 river ships in 2028, alongside 26 ocean and expedition ships by 2031.

Backside Line

Having sailed with Viking a number of instances, I might see first-hand that the cruise line has a selected components that works, and they’re doubling down on it.

Cruisers love the shortage of “nickel and diming” on board and a spotlight to the easy particulars. The corporate is thought for his or her listing of belongings you received’t discover on their ships: no on line casino, no artwork auctions, no waterslides, no youngsters.

Because the journey brochure says, it’s the pondering individual’s cruise, and Viking does an amazing job of offering an immersive expertise to every location the ship visits.

And with every ship in the identical class comparatively the identical, you all the time know what to anticipate on board.