Star Cruises

Star Cruises is the third largest cruise company in the world after of Carnival Corporation & plc and Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd.. and dominates the Asia-Pacific market. The company owns the brands Norwegian Cruise Line, NCL America and Cruise Ferries, which all come together on 22 cruise ships with more than 35,000 beds. The Company's shares are traded on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange and the Singapore Stock Exchange.

History

Star Cruises was founded as a subsidiary of Genting Group in Malaysia, on 10 November 1993 in Bermuda and has its headquarters in Hong Kong. The first ships of the company were two ferries from the holdings of the bankrupt Swedish Rederi AB Slite. In the following years, Star Cruises bought several other used ships. In 1998, Star Cruises was awarded the first own newbuilding, the Superstar Leo, the sister ship SuperStar Virgo followed in the following year.

In 2000, Star Cruises, Norwegian Cruise Line ( NCL) purchased together with its subsidiaries Orient Lines and Norwegian Capricorn Line and thus became the first global cruise company. The Norwegian Capricorn Lines was shortly thereafter incorporated into the Star Cruises and dives since then no more than a brand name. Before buying the NCL Star Cruises had several new buildings being planned or under construction, this daughter of NCL but have been assigned. In August 2007, Star Cruises announced that a 50 % stake in NCL was sold to a U.S. private equity firm Apollo Management.

In 2001, Star Cruises founded a new subsidiary Cruise Ferries, which took first with a ship, the Wasa Queen, short cruises from Hong Kong to Xiamen.

On 29 July 1999 Star Cruises ordered for 2003 and 2005, consisting of two ships Superstar Sagittarius II class was planned with a tonnage of 112,000 GT. The ships were to be built at the Meyer Werft shipyard in Papenburg. In 2000, the ships were canceled again and instead of 2005, the ships Norwegian Jewel and Pride of Hawaii were asked for Norwegian Cruise Line in service.

Since the Norwegian Cruise Line proved to be more profitable than sailing under its own brand name Star Cruises ships, there is since 2006 the trend to build new ships for the NCL and assign the resulting replace older ships of the Star Cruises fleet in Asia.

On October 7, 2013 Star Cruises has ordered a cruise ship - building for 3364 passengers at the Meyer Werft shipyard in Papenburg. The cruise ship is expected to cost 707.2 million euros and will be delivered in October 2016 .. The 330 -meter-long ship, the largest ship in the fleet will then be. It should be completed in 2016.

Beginning in February 2014 ordered Star Cruises another new building at the Meyer Werft. There is an identical sister ship to the already ordered new construction and to be delivered in the autumn of 2017.

Fleet ( excluding subsidiaries )

Current fleet

• Star Pisces
• SuperStar Gemini
• Genting World, formerly Megastar Aries

Earlier ships

• Star Aquarius, also known as Lankapuri Star Aquarius (1993-2001) - now Pearl of Scandinavia for DFDS
• Superstar Capricorn (1997-1998, 2001-2004) - Now Boudicca for Fred. Olsen Cruise Lines
• Superstar Leo (1998-2004) - Transfer to the Norwegian Cruise Line and Norwegian Spirit.
• Megastar Sagittarius (2000-2001) - Now Spirit of Oceanus for Cruise West
• Megastar Capricorn (2000) - now Hebridean Spirit for Hebridean Iceland Cruise
• Megastar Taurus
• SuperStar Taurus (2000-2001) - now Cristal for Louis Cruise Lines.
• Superstar Gemini (1995-2009), now. Than MS Gemini for Quail Travel Group
• Norway, change from NCL to Star Cruises was smashed, 2006 Demolition at Alang
• Norwegian Star 1, 2001-2002, today Albatros at Phoenix Reisen