Fred. Olsen Cruise Lines
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| Subsidiary | |
| Industry | Shipping |
| Founded | 1848 |
| Headquarters | Ipswich, United Kingdom |
| Products | Cruise ships |
| Parent | Bonheur |
| Website | www.fredolsencruises.com |
Fred. Olsen Cruise Lines is a UK-based, Norwegian-owned cruise shipping line with four cruise ships. The company headquarters are in Ipswich, Suffolk, in the United Kingdom, and is owned by Bonheur and Ganger Rolf. The company is part of the Fred. Olsen Group.
The company originated in Hvitsten, a small town on Oslofjord in Norway, in 1848 by three Olsen brothers, Fredrik Christian, Petter and Andras, who bought their first ships and began an international shipping company. The company is now into the fifth generation of the family and operates various companies skilled within the cruise and passenger shipping trade, as well as aviation, ships' crewing, ship building and offshore industries. The Fred. Olsen group also has business interests in the luxury hotel sector, estate management, property development and electronics companies.
For most of the year, the ships are based in UK ports, with cruises departing from Southampton, Dover, Rosyth (for Edinburgh), Greenock (for Glasgow), Liverpool, Harwich, Falmouth, London Tilbury, Newcastle and Belfast. A winter Caribbean fly-cruise programme on Braemar operates from Barbados, with connecting flights from London and Manchester.
Itineraries range from popular areas, such as the Mediterranean, Canaries, Round the UK, Baltic, Norway, Adriatic and the Caribbean, to the longer, cruise voyage routes – ‘Around South America’ and ‘Around the World’.
Fred. Olsen Cruise Lines operates a fleet of four cruise ships to destinations in Northern Europe, the Baltic, the Mediterranean, the Adriatic, the Canary Islands, the Caribbean, Africa, Canada, the United States and South America. The company operates smaller scale cruise ships, ranging in size from 24,000 to 43,000 GRT (approx). The ambience on board is traditionally British.
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