founded 1866 as troms fylkes dampskibsselskap . headquarters troms norway area served norway arctic antarctica key people daniel skjeldam ceo products bus transport ferry transport freight shipping cruise ships revenue nok 3 300 million 2013 operating income nok 261 million 2013 net income nok 26 million 2013 number of employees 1 757 2013 subsidiaries tirb website hurtigruten as english ms kong harald coastal express in moldefjorden . ms fram in upernavik greenland . ms richard with coastal express off bod . ms kong harald coastal express in geirangerfjord . hurtigruten as formerly hurtigruten group asa and hurtigruten asa is a norwegian transport corporation with headquarters in troms 1 norway . the company provides services in bus transport passenger ferry transport automobile ferry transport cruise ships and tourism planning in addition to operating hurtigruten the coastal ferry service along the norwegian coast from which it takes its name . 2 contents 1 history 2 operations 2.1 hurtigruten coastal express service 2.2 cruise ships 2.3 car ferries 2.4 tourism 3 former assets 3.1 buses 3.2 hotels 4 current fleet 5 references 6 external links history edit hurtigruten as is the result of a merger between the two previous operators of the hurtigruten service ofotens og vesteraalens dampskibsselskab ovds and troms fylkes dampskibsselskap tfds . tfds was founded in 1866 and ovds was established in 1868 . the two companies merged in march 2006 to form hurtigruten group asa and twelve months later the merged entity assumed the name hurtigruten asa . in 2012 the company headquarters was moved from narvik to troms . 1 in 2015 the legal form of hurtigruten was changed from asa to as . 3 operations edit hurtigruten coastal express service edit hurtigruten asa is the sole operator of the hurtigruten literally the fast route a daily passenger ferry cruise and shipping line along the western and northern norwegian coast . 2 it operates between the southern bergen and northeastern kirkenes . a total of 11 ships operate the route . 4 cruise ships edit several former hurtigruten ships now operate as cruise ships to antarctica departing from ushuaia on the argentine tierra del fuego . the route can include the falkland islands and south georgia islands . 5 hurtigruten group acquired the ms fram for their tour cruises in greenland . 4 other cruises include touring iceland 6 the mediterranean region coasts and ports 7 and the trans atlantic voyage from las palmas in the canary islands to buenos aires argentina . 8 car ferries edit hurtigruten asa operates a number of roll on roll off car ferries in nordland troms finnmark and m re og romsdal . tourism edit the company owns a number of travel related companies including the tour operator spitsbergen travel and a number of travel agencies in norway and abroad . the hurtigruten museum is a maritime museum about the hurtigruten that is located in the port city of stokmarknes norway . the ms finnmarken retired from the coastal express and a museum ship now is located on shore beside the hurtigruten museum . former assets edit buses edit hurtigruten asa owned 71.3 % of the transportation company tirb . the shares were sold to boreal transport nord as in july 2014 for 95.9 million nok . 9 hotels edit hurtigruten asa owned two hotels in bergen ; neptun hotel and strand hotel . the hotels were sold to bergen hotel in 2008 . 10 current fleet edit current ships of the fleet include 4 ms fram used as expedition ship . ms midnatsol ms trollfjord ms finnmarken ms nordnorge ms nordkapp ms polarlys ms nordlys ms richard with ms kong harald ms vester len ms lofoten references edit a b lysvold susanne 6 december 2012 . hurtigruten legger ned i narvik og flytter til troms . nrk in norwegian . retrieved 12 april 2015 . a b hurtigruten norwegian coastal express ferry and coastal cruises vaeng s bbe linda 3 february 2015 . slik blir hovedkontoret form og styret i nye hurtigruten as . vest 24 in norwegian . retrieved 12 april 2015 . a b c hurtigruten ships . accessed 2015 04 13 hurtigruten antarctica cruises hurtigruten iceland cruises hurtigruten european cruises hurtigruten trans atlantic voyage cruises bj rklund marco 9 july 2014 . tirb er solgt . troms folkeblad . archived from the original on 5 august 2014 . bergen hotel overtar hurtigruten hotels . horecanytt . 19 june 2008 . archived from the original on 5 august 2014 . external links edit wikimedia commons has media related to hurtigruten . official hurtigruten website in english . official hurtigruten website in norwegian . v t e road ferry operators of norway boreal transport nord fjord1 fosen trafikklag helgelandske hurtigruten group namsos trafikkselskap tide torghatten asa retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title hurtigruten as & oldid 725915629 categories hurtigrutenferry companies of norwayshipping companies of norwaycruise linesferry companies of nordlandferry companies of tromscompanies based in troms companies established in 18661866 establishments in norwaycompanies based in narvikcompanies formerly listed on the oslo stock exchangehidden categories cs1 norwegian language sources no commons category with local link same as on wikidata navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version in other projects wikimedia commons languages deutsch norsk bokm lnorsk nynorsk edit links this page was last modified on 18 june 2016 at 18 13 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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