Royal Olympic Cruises
| Royal Olympic Cruises | |
|---|---|
| legal form | |
| founding | 1995 |
| resolution | 2005 |
| Reason for dissolution | insolvency |
| Seat | Piraeus , Greece |
| Branch | Cruises |
The Royal Olympic Cruises (from 2002 Royal Olympia Cruises ) was a Greek shipping company that was founded in 1995 from a merger of Epirotiki Lines and Sun Lines and operated several cruise ships . After the shipping company ran into financial difficulties in 2003, it was dissolved in 2005.
history
Royal Olympic Cruises was formed in 1995 from a merger of the ailing Greek Epirotiki Lines and Sun Lines. The ships of both shipping companies together formed the fleet for Royal Olympic Cruises, which initially consisted of six units. The mostly older ships were henceforth used for cruises in the Mediterranean .
While Royal Olympic had sales of more than ninety million dollars in 1998, booking numbers fell sharply in 1999. In the same year, part of the shipping company was therefore acquired by Louis Cruise Lines , which commissioned two newbuildings: the Olympic Voyager in 2000 and the Olympia Explorer in 2002.
From 2002 the shipping company officially called itself Royal Olympia Cruises . In 2003 she ran into financial difficulties again, part of the fleet was arrested because of outstanding bills. As a result, most of the ships were sold to other operators or scrapped. In 2005, Royal Olympia Cruises finally filed for bankruptcy and was dissolved.
Ships
| year | Surname | tonnage | shipyard | Status / fate |
| 1995 (1962) | Odysseus | 9639 GRT | Sociedad Española de Construcción Naval, Bilbao | Sold in 2005, scrapped in India in 2008 |
| 1995 (1965) | Stella Oceanis | 3963 GRT | Cantieri Riuniti dell'Adriatico, Monfalcone | Scrapped in India in 2003 |
| 1995 (1953) | Stella Solaris | 13217 GRT | Ateliers et Chantiers de France, Dunkerque | Scrapped in India in 2003 |
| 1995 (1960) | Stella Maris II | 2964 GRT | Adler shipyard , Bremen | Sold in 1998, scrapped in India in 2008 |
| 1995 (1971) | Triton | 14 151 GRT | Rotterdamsche Droogdok Maatschappij , Rotterdam | Sold in 2005, scrapped in India in 2014 |
| 1995 (1961) | Apollo | 27,284 GRT | Vickers-Armstrong , Walker-on-Tyne | Scrapped in India in 2003 |
| 1996 (1948) | Orpheus | 4088 GRT | Harland & Wolff , Belfast | Scrapped in India in 2000 |
| 1997 (1953) | Olympia I | 5500 GRT | Ansaldo , Livorno | Scrapped in Turkey in 2006 |
| 1998 (1976) | Olympic Countess | 17,495 GRT | Burmeister & Wain , Copenhagen | 2002 Olympia Countess , sold in 2005, scrapped in 2014 after a fire in Turkey |
| 2000 | Olympic Voyager | 24 391 GRT | Blohm + Voss , Hamburg | 2002 Olympia Voyager , sold in 2004, when Chinese Taishan momentum |
| 2002 | Olympia Explorer | 24,318 GRT | Blohm + Voss, Hamburg | Sold in 2004 while sailing as the Glory Sea |