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| legal form | GmbH |
| founding | April 20, 2009 |
| Seat | Rostock , Germany |
| management | Jörg Eichler, Markus Zoepke |
| Number of employees | approx. 630 (2014) |
| sales | approx. 60 million euros (2012) |
| Branch | shipping |
| Website | www.a-rosa.de |
The A-Rosa River boat GmbH is a German shipping company , the cruises offered on several European rivers. The company is based in Rostock . The entire nautical and service personnel is employed by the subsidiary A-Rosa Reederei GmbH based in Chur , Switzerland . With eight of its own ships and 580 employees, sales of around EUR 60 million were achieved in 2012.
history
The company emerged from Seetours, a company jointly managed by Deutsche Seereederei (DSR) and the British shipping company P&O . From 2002, the Seetours offered for the first time under the brand name A'Rosa, in addition to sea cruises with the A'Rosa Blu, also river cruises on the Danube with two newly built ships, the A-Rosa Bella and the A-Rosa Donna . Two more ships for this new line of business were ordered for 2003 ( A-Rosa Mia ) and 2004 ( A-Rosa Riva ). After Carnival Corporation & plc acquired the sea cruise sector , DSR adopted the A-Rosa brand name for the river cruise business. As a result, the new owner renamed the cruise ship Aidablu in 2004 . The color design of the bow tip of the ships, which represents a red mouth, was adopted by both companies. The rose was only retained as a trademark at A-Rosa. The Deutsche Seereederei established the river cruise division within the group below the Arkona AG subsidiary, which is responsible for tourism .
With the two other newbuildings taken over by Neptun Werft at the same time , the A-Rosa Luna and the A-Rosa STELLA , A-Rosa started offering cruises on the Rhone and Saône in 2005 . In 2008 the management decided to offer cruises on the Rhine . For this purpose, two new ships were ordered from the Neptun shipyard, which were put into service in July 2009 ( A-Rosa Aqua ) and in March 2010 ( A-Rosa Viva ). A third reordered ship of the series, the A-Rosa Brava , was delivered on February 17, 2011.
On April 20, 2009, A-Rosa was spun off from Deutsche Seereederei as part of a management buy-out . The previously managing DSR partner Lars M. Clasen and the Chief Operating Officer of the river cruise division Markus Zoepke took over the shares in the GmbH together with the investment company Waterland Private Equity from Düsseldorf . Lars Clasen has only been a partner since 2013. Marketing and sales specialist Jörg Eichler took over his position as managing director in June of the same year.
The fleet was expanded in February 2011 with the cabin passenger ship A-Rosa Brava intended for cruises on the Rhine , and in July 2012 the new Rhine-Main-Danube cruise ship A-Rosa SILVA was christened in Amsterdam and put into service. The A-Rosa Flora was put into service at the start of the 2014 season.
Fleet and routes
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In 2020, the fleet will consist of 13 ships, five of which have been specially adapted to the respective trade area. All ships are new acquisitions and except for A-Rosa Alva (built in Portugal near West Sea ) were built at the Neptun shipyard in Rostock-Warnemünde.
Rhine, Main and Moselle
The two ships of the Rhine fleet operate on 30 different routes depending on the season. The northernmost destination is Harlingen am Wattenmeer , southernmost Basel . The Moselle is traveled to Trier . The ships are serviced in the Deutzer Hafen in Cologne and in Frankfurt am Main . The structurally identical ships used there are each 135.0 m long and 11.4 m wide. They have 99 outside cabins and are approved for 202 passengers. Another ship with an additional deck is expected to be launched in 2021.
- A-Rosa Aqua (2009)
- A-Rosa Brava (2011)
Rhine, Main, Moselle and Danube
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In mid-February 2011, the shipping company ordered two 2½-deck ships from the Neptun shipyard in Warnemünde, which were specially designed for the lower clearance heights on the Main-Danube Canal . The first ship ( A-Rosa Silva ) was delivered in 2012. The keel of the second ship ( A-Rosa Flora ) was laid on April 12, 2013, and has been in use since the end of March 2014. The ships are 135.0 m long and 11.4 m wide. They are approved for 186 passengers and for the first time have suites and “junior suites” in addition to the regular outside cabins.
- A-Rosa Silva (2012)
- A-Rosa Flora (2014)
Danube
The four ships of the Danube fleet operate on 17 different routes. The most westerly approached destination is Passau , the most easterly is Vilkovo on the Danube Delta in Ukraine . The structurally identical ships used there are each 124.5 m long and 14.4 m wide. They have 100 outside cabins and are approved for 242 passengers. Maintenance and repair work is carried out in Linz .
- A-Rosa Bella (2002)
- A-Rosa Donna (2002)
- A-Rosa Mia (2003)
- A-Rosa Riva (2004)
Rhône and Saône
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The two ships in the Rhône fleet operate on eight different routes. The northernmost destination is Chalon-sur-Saône in the Burgundy region , the southernmost is Port-Saint-Louis-du-Rhône at the mouth of the Rhône to the Mediterranean . The tours generally start in Lyon . The structurally identical ships used there are each 125.8 m long and 11.4 m wide. They have 86 outside cabins and are approved for 174 passengers.
- A-Rosa Luna (2005)
- A-Rosa Stella (2005)
His
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The A-Rosa VIVA has been on the Seine from Saint-Denis north of Paris to Normandy since 2017 . The last stage destination before the Atlantic is Caudebec-en-Caux . The ship is 135.0 m long and 11.4 m wide. It has 99 outside cabins and is approved for 202 passengers.
- A-Rosa Viva (2010)
Douro
A-Rosa has also been on the Portuguese-Spanish river Douro (Spanish: Duero) since 2019. A special feature here is that due to regulations it is only allowed to sail in daylight, so the ship is in a port every night. The trips start and end in Porto , the last stop (and last port on the navigable part of the Douro) is the pier in Vega de Terrón. The A-Rosa Alva was specially adapted to the Douro and built at West Sea Estaleiros Navais in Viana do Castelo . The ship has 63 cabins for a maximum of 129 passengers and, with a length of 79.8 meters, is the shortest and smallest ship in the fleet due to the dimensions of the lock systems.
- A-Rosa Alva (2019)
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ A-Rosa press release 2014 (PDF) ( Memento of the original from July 11, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ a-rosa.de: Company
- ↑ Digital press kit 2011 from A-Rosa Flussschifffahrt ( Memento of the original from February 25, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed March 12, 2011
- ↑ Press release from Neptunweft about laying the keel of A-Rosa Flora
- ↑ New river cruiser christened in Amsterdam . In: Daily port report of July 6, 2012, p. 15
- ↑ A-Rosa on the Seine: Successful premiere start. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on October 18, 2018 ; Retrieved July 6, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ https://www.a-rosa.de/flusskreuzfahrten/a-rosa-flotte/a-rosa-alva.html
