{"id":14767,"date":"2009-11-03T20:05:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-03T20:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/hurtigruten-charters-to-australian-gas-project-2\/"},"modified":"2009-11-03T20:05:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-03T20:05:00","slug":"hurtigruten-charters-to-australian-gas-project-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/2009\/11\/hurtigruten-charters-to-australian-gas-project-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Hurtigruten Charters to Australian Gas Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.simplonpc.co.uk\/Hurtigrute\/Finnmarken_2002-01.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"281\" src=\"http:\/\/www.simplonpc.co.uk\/Hurtigrute\/Finnmarken_2002-01.jpg\" width=\"400\"><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><i>source: Cruise Critic<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Hurtigruten is saying farewell to Finnmarken &#8212; at least for a year and a half. The expedition line has signed off on an 18-month charter, with an option for an 18-month extension.<\/p>\n<p>The 15,530-ton, 639-passenger ship is being chartered to Boskalis Australia Pty Limited, a global provider of dredging and maritime infrastructure services. Finnmarken will provide marine construction support (carry supplies) on the Gorgon project in Western Australia, which involves the development of a natural gas plant.<\/p>\n<p>Because the contract will commence early in 2010, booked passengers on Finnmarken&#8217;s scheduled Coastal Voyages will be impacted by the move. A spokesman for the line tells us most displaced passengers will be moved over to the 11,204-ton, 475-passenger Nordlys. Those with suite accommodations, however, will be offered similar accommodations onboard Midnatsol or Trollfjord because the slightly smaller Nordlys doesn&#8217;t have enough suites to put up all affected guests (Midnatsol and Trollfjord are nearly identical in size to Finnmarken).<\/p>\n<p>If you are booked on a Coastal Voyage aboard Finnmarken, you needn&#8217;t do anything at this time. The company will be contacting affected passengers directly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>source: Cruise Critic Hurtigruten is saying farewell to Finnmarken &#8212; at least for a year and a half. The expedition line has signed off on an 18-month charter, with an option for an 18-month extension. The 15,530-ton, 639-passenger ship is being chartered to Boskalis Australia Pty Limited, a global provider of dredging and maritime infrastructure [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[341],"class_list":["post-14767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-hurtigruten"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14767\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}