Hamburg-based Hapag Lloyd Cruises, which is about to restart operations after the suspension caused by the COVID-19 crisis, has announced that the expedition ship MS Bremen will no longer operate any cruises for Hapag Lloyd Cruises.
The MS Bremen will be temporarily taken out of service. The reason for this decision is that the ship, built in Japan in 1990, cannot be subject to current health and social distancing measures due to its size and layout. As a result, the MS Bremen, currently based in Rostock, will not be included in Hapag-Lloyd Cruises' new plans to restart operations with cruises aboard the MS Europa 2 and the Hanseatic Inspiration.
The cruise ship, renamed MS Bremen in 1993, is leaving the company ahead of schedule. In May 2021, the expedition vessel will be delivered to the Swiss shipping company Scylla AG, which will rename it MS Seaventure and put it into service for VIVA Cruises Expeditions. Until now, Scylla AG has only operated river cruises, a situation that will change with the addition of the MS Bremen.
Some milestones of the expedition cruise are associated with the MS Bremen, because the ship was the first passenger ship to circumnavigate Spitsbergen and also the Arctic.
