Viking Cruises has ordered nine river cruise ships from the German shipyard Meyer Neptun Werft, helping to fill the shipyard’s order book for the next two and a half years. For more than a decade, Neptun Werft Shipyard has been the leading builder of Viking river cruise ships, with 65 ships now completed and delivered.
In February, Viking had ordered a river cruise ship from the Neptun Werft shipyard. With this latest order, Viking’s order book for river cruise ships at the shipyard has increased to 10 ships this year. Five of the ships are scheduled for delivery in 2025, with the remainder to be delivered in 2026.
This series of orders is an expansion of a new design developed specifically based on Viking’s needs, which integrates a hybrid propulsion system into a river cruise ship.
The system will be equipped with batteries that will allow the vessel to avoid peak loads, thus reducing emissions, and will add solar panels to the top deck area of the new vessel. Further optimization of the state-of-the-art design includes a compact wastewater treatment system. Meanwhile, shore power will also be available during the ship’s docking periods.Neptun Werft Shipyard emphasizes that the hybrid system will allow the ship to comply with the EU’s most stringent exhaust emission regulations.
Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)The system will be equipped with batteries that will allow the vessel to avoid peak loads, thus reducing emissions, and will add solar panels to the top deck area of the new vessel. Further optimization of the state-of-the-art design includes a compact wastewater treatment system. Meanwhile, shore power will also be available during the ship’s docking periods.Neptun Werft Shipyard emphasizes that the hybrid system will allow the ship to comply with the EU’s most stringent exhaust emission regulations.
The Neptun Werft shipyard will build two different sizes of river cruise ships for Viking. The single vessel ordered earlier this year, as well as another new ship designed for the Seine River, will be 125 meters long and reach the center of Paris, with deliveries in 2025 and 2026, respectively, and will each have a capacity of 168 passengers. The remaining river cruise ships, which are 135 meters long and can accommodate up to 190 passengers, will be delivered equally between 2025 and 2026, when they will be deployed on the Rhine, Main and Danube rivers.
