{"id":19180,"date":"2014-10-31T02:49:00","date_gmt":"2014-10-31T02:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/new-owners-new-ships-for-hurtigruten\/"},"modified":"2014-10-31T02:49:00","modified_gmt":"2014-10-31T02:49:00","slug":"new-owners-new-ships-for-hurtigruten","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/2014\/10\/new-owners-new-ships-for-hurtigruten\/","title":{"rendered":"New owners, new ships for Hurtigruten"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\" trbidi=\"on\">\n<span>#expeditioncruising\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5506\/12739395103_ce3dbfe0eb_b.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Hurtigruten expediton vessel, Fram\" border=\"0\" height=\"170\" src=\"https:\/\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5506\/12739395103_ce3dbfe0eb_b.jpg\" title=\"Hurtigruten expediton vessel, Fram\" width=\"400\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p><span>\u00a0<\/span> <br \/>A group of British investors is poised to take ownership of the historic Norwegian cruise and ferry service, according to a report in <a href=\"http:\/\/barentsobserver.com\/en\/business\/2014\/10\/hurtigruten-gets-new-owner-eyes-solovki-cruises-30-10\" target=\"_blank\">Barents Oberserver<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The paper goes on to\u00a0 report that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hurtigruten.com\/no\/Utils\/Om-Hurtigruten\/Presse\/Pressemeldinger\/pressemeldinger-2014\/?side_id=98526&#038;releaseId=942601\" target=\"_blank\">Hurtigruten announced<\/a> on Wednesday it recommends a takeover bid from the London-based investment group, Silk Bidco <span>AS<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>With headquarters in Troms\u00f8, Hurtigruten operates daily voyages along  Norway\u2019s scenic coast from Kirkenes in the northeast to Bergen in  the southwest.<\/p>\n<p>After the announcement of the takeover bid, Hurtigruten officials are reported to have said the company would get a better financial stand to consider construction of new vessels, including ships for expedition cruising.<\/p>\n<table align=\"center\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-uB22-O_vClg\/VFL6AQwrjSI\/AAAAAAAAqLs\/eMJblVF_jm8\/s1600\/holy_lake.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-uB22-O_vClg\/VFL6AQwrjSI\/AAAAAAAAqLs\/eMJblVF_jm8\/s1600\/holy_lake.jpg\" height=\"285\" width=\"400\"><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>The Holy lake behind the walls of the monastery is a popular recreation area for the locals on Solovki.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>Photo: Thomas Nilsen \/ BarentsObserver<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>A new destination for expedition cruising in Russia\u2019s White Sea region with the Solovetsky archipelago, often entitled the <a href=\"http:\/\/barentsobserver.com\/en\/node\/22233\">secret pearl of the Barents Region<\/a>.  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have agreed on starting developing the cruise itinerary from Troms\u00f8 via Kirkenes, Murmansk, Solovetsky Archipelago to Arkhangelsk,\u201d says Olga Gorelova to BarentsObserver. <\/p>\n<p>Gorelova is Deputy Head of the Agency for Tourism and International Cooperation of the Arkhangelsk Region. <\/p>\n<p>The itinerary was discussed at a meeting between Russian and Norwegian tourism representatives in Arkhangelsk in October.<\/p>\n<p>If successful, it is proposed that the the expedition vessel, Fram, begin cruises in 2017.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>#expeditioncruising\u00a0 \u00a0 A group of British investors is poised to take ownership of the historic Norwegian cruise and ferry service, according to a report in Barents Oberserver. The paper goes on to\u00a0 report that Hurtigruten announced on Wednesday it recommends a takeover bid from the London-based investment group, Silk Bidco AS. With headquarters in Troms\u00f8, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hurtigruten"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19180","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=19180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19180\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}