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In a partnership aimed at advancing sustainability in river cruises, Neste and OK Slurink, subsidiary of Catom B.V. and a specialist in bunkering services, have joined forces with Scylla, a provider of river cruises, to supply Neste MY Renewable Diesel™ in the Netherlands for Scylla’s river cruise operations. (more…)
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The long-established shipping company, Scylla, will focus entirely on its core business: river cruising. (more…)
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River cruise specialist, VIVA Cruises, will christen its new flagship VIVA TWO on 23 March 2023. (more…)
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Polar Latitudes has kicked off its Antarctica program with the Seaventure, the ship formerly known as the Bremen, sailing for Hapag-Lloyd Cruises. (cruiseindustrynews.com)
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Leading Swiss river cruise operator, Scylla AG, resumed operations with a cruise on Portugal’s Douro River on 22 May – becoming, once again, the first operator to restart river cruises in Europe after seven months of Covid-19 restrictions, as they did in 2020. (more…)
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River cruise specialist, Viva Cruises, is launching four new itineraries on the North and Baltic Seas on board the company’s first ever expedition ship, MS Seaventure. The new cruises will start in April 2021 and have a capacity for just 164 guests. (more…)
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A German river cruise became the centre of a superspreading event after around two thirds of the passengers on board tested positive for Covid-19. The mostly Swiss holidaymakers were on a folk music-themed cruise from Passau to Frankfurt between 10 and 17 October, aboard the Scylla AG operated MS Swiss Crystal. (independent.co.uk)
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The first post Covid-19 cruise of leading river cruise operator, Scylla, has successfully come to an end after 13 days of sailing along the Danube, Main and Rhine rivers. The cruise aboard nickoVISION, run by river cruise line, Nicko cruises, took a reduced number of passengers from Passau to Dusseldorf, in Germany. (more…)
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Leading river cruise operator, Scylla, has announced the sailing of 34 ships on Europe’s waterways with immediate effect – becoming one of the first companies to resume operations after Covid-19. (more…)
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“More than 2 months after COVID-19 has put our fleet on pause, we can finally wake up in a world where cruising activities are within reach again. As we have passed the peak of COVID-19 and we have got to know our `virucidal enemy`, a positive outlook enabled us to start preparing the restart of our cruising activities.” (more…)
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Scylla will launch a new expedition cruise brand, VIVA Cruises Expeditions, in summer 2021 with the SeaVenture sailing to Northern Europe and the Arctic. The Switzerland-based vessel management company owns and operates more than 30 riverboats for various brands, and has its own river brand in VIVA Cruises. (cruiseindustrynews.com)
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MS Anna Katharina
Phoenix Reisen has christened it latest river vessel, the Anna Katharina, in a family ceremony with Anna Katharina Zurnieden, niece of the company’s founder, as the godmother. Owned by Scylla AG, the Anna Katharina is chartered to Phoenix Reisen. (cruiseindustrynews.com)
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Polar Latitudes will charter the Bremen for the 2021-2022 Antarctica season, Scylla announced. The ship will be renamed the SeaScape in May 2021 as Scylla takes over the vessel from Hapag-Lloyd Cruises. The Swiss company has over 30 riverboats in its portfolio and has now moved into the expedition market. (cruiseindustrynews.com)
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Robbert Verbeek and Andreas Wandinger have been named managing directors at Syclla AG, which owns and charters a fleet of riverboats, and will take delivery of the Bremen in 2021. Verbeek is currently Group CFO and Wandinger, CCO. They are taking the place of Manuela van Zelst, who is stepping aside after a 17-year run with the Swiss company. (cruiseindustrynews.com)
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Tauck has announced that it will offer its first-ever cruises on the Douro River in Portugal next year, and that its three new itineraries will sail aboard a riverboat that’s being designed and built specifically for the Douro. (more…)
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Add another operator to the booming expedition cruise market as Scylla today announced it had acquired the Bremen from Hapag-Lloyd Cruises. The Swiss company will take delivery of the expedition vessel in May of 2021. (cruiseindustrynews.com)
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On Friday 24 February celebrations took place at the Ruyterkade Oost in Amsterdam. Not one but two river cruise vessels of the Swiss shipping company Scylla were christened. (more…)
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Since the 2007 launch of its Street View project to catalog 360-degree panoramic images from locations around the world, the team at Google has driven more than seven million miles, visited 66 countries and traveled to both Antarctica and the Arctic. (more…)
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