Hurtigruten Group
Hurtigruten ASA is a Norwegian shipping company based in Narvik, as well as additional offices in Tromsø and Stokmarknes. It operates more express and car ferries in addition to all ships of traditional postal shipping line Hurtigruten. Home port of all currently 70 units of the shipping company is Narvik and Tromsø.
History
The shipping company was only founded in March 2006 as a merger of the shipping company Troms Fylkes Dampskibsselskap A / S ( TFDS ) with the above Ofotens Vester Aalen Dampskibsselskap A / S ( OVDS ). First, it changed its name one years under the name Hurtigruten Group ASA until it got its current name in March 2007.
Financial problems
In May 2008 it was announced that the management of the shipping company prepared sales of entire businesses and investments because of the high level of debt of about NOK 600 million. In the autumn of 2008 it was announced that the shipping company intends to take three of their Hurtigruten ships for reasons of cost from the shipping service. After an injection of funds by the Norwegian State amounted to NOK 120 million in October 2008, at least the daily Lininenverkehr could be obtained over the winter of 2008 / 09; only the ships and Nordlys Nordnorge were launched in late October or early November 2008 without crew. The Nordlys was taken back into the line of traffic in the summer of 2009, the Nordnorge on April 1, 2010.
Business and investments
The mail boat line Hurtigruten
The shipping company operates all ships on the mail boat Hurtigruten. As for the daily services to eleven vessels will be required, but thirteen ships are available, two ships of this type are used for expedition cruises. During the summer months the ships Nordstjernen and Fram are mainly used to cruises to Greenland and Svalbard, during the winter months, in addition to the Fram, the Nordnorge are used in Antarctic waters. The chartered by the Norwegian- Canadian operator Karlsen Shipping icebreaker Polar Star is also used in the summer months for tourism polar expeditions and polar sea journeys.
The current fleet of postal and expedition ships
Expedition ships of the Hurtigruten
In addition to the Fram more of Hurtigruten expedition chartered ships are used. The icebreaker Polar Star and the former ferry expedition be used during the summer months for expedition cruises to Spitsbergen ( Svalbard ). The Managing Director of Hurtigruten Gesselschaft is Heiko Jensen
People - speed ferries ( Hurtigbåt )
The shipping company operates further eighteen persons Express ferries on the west coast of Norway. One of the busiest passenger relations are here Tromsø - Harstad and Bodø - Sandnessjøen.
The current fleet of Hurtigbåter
- Brottøy
- Meløytind
- Nordfolda
- Lurøyprinsessen
- Ofoten
- Salten
- Steigtind
- Rødøyløven
- Visten
- Øykongen
- Fjorddronningen
- Fjorddronningen II
- Fjord Kongen
- Fjord Prinsessen
- Kvænangen
- Clean Fjord
- Vågsfjord
- Skogøy
Car and passenger ferries
In addition, operating in the Fylken Nordland, Troms, Finnmark and Møre og Romsdal 38 car ferries on 22 ferry services from the shipping company.
The current fleet of car and passenger ferries
- Hamarøy
- Tysfjorden
- Bodø
- Stetind
- Bognes
- Bogøy
- Gildeskål
- Kjerringøy
- Ørnes
- Fykan
- Landego
- Lødingen
- Rødøy
- Røst
- Røsund
- Røtinn
- Virak
- Vågan
- Andfjordferga
- Dyrøy
- Fløytind
- Godfjord
- Gullesfjord
- Helgøy
- Hålogaland
- Karlsøy
- Kvaløy
- Kveøy
- Malangen
- Melshorn
- Reinøy
- Salangen
- Vaggasvarre
- Vardehorn
- Vengsø
Investments
The shipping company holds a 50 % stake in the Norwegian shipping company Nor Lines. Furthermore, the Hurtigruten ASA holds 70.15 % of the shares of TIRB, a transportation company based in Finnsnes that uses next inter-city bus and truck in local and long-distance transport. About TIRB she is also involved in the regional transport companies Tromsbuss and Ofotens Bilruter.