Portuscale Cruises
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| Cruising | |
| Industry | Cruise line |
| Founded | 2013 |
| Headquarters | Lisbon, Portugal |
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Area served
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Europe |
| Services | Cruises |
| Owner | Rui Alegre |
| Website | http://www.portuscalecruises.pt |
Portuscale Cruises is a Portuguese shipping company. It is the first Portuguese company specifically dedicated to maritime cruises.
Portuscale Cruises spent 20 million euros in the refurbishment of its fleet of four cruise ships, bought from defunct Classic International Cruises in early 2013.
As of 2014, the Funchal is in active service, the Azores is currently under charter to CMV, the Lisboa was under refit due to technicalities with the vessel, but was sold to an unknown italian buyer and shortly after beached at alang india for scrap .and the status of the Porto is laid up; it is unknown when she will enter service.
As of late 2016 little is known about the future of the company. Both the Funchal and the Porto" are currently laid up side by side, with the Portuscale logos on the funnels painted over. The only ship to remain in service is the Azores which is currently under charter to CMV which have renamed her Astoria. From May 2016, until March 2017, the ship is on charter to French tour operator Rivages Du Monde. In June 2016, it was announced that Astoria would be leaving the CMV fleet after her final cruise on 27 April 2017, she will then be chartered again to Rivages Du Monde until December 2017.
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