Hurtigruten (company)

Coastal Express

Hurtigruten is one of two operators 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 city of Bergen and the northeastern city of Kirkenes. A total of 7 ships operate this route.^[7]

Signature Voyages

Hurtigruten also sails two Signature routes^[8] along the Norwegian coast: The North Cape Line^[9] and The Svalbard Line.^[10]

These routes are currently operated by two ships: MS Trollfjord,^[11] which sails The Svalbard Line between Bergen and Longyearbyen in summer and The North Cape Line between Oslo and Honningsvåg in winter; and MS Finnmarken,^[12] which operates The North Cape Line from Hamburg to Honningsvåg. MS Midnatsol will join the fleet as a Signature ship from May 2026,^[13] sailing The Svalbard Line and The North Cape Line from Hamburg.

Tourism

The company also owns Hurtigruten Svalbard^[14] (formerly Spitsbergen Travel), a tour and hotel company based in Longyearbyen.

The Hurtigruten Museum

The Hurtigruten Museum is a maritime museum located in the port city of Stokmarknes, Norway that showcases the history of Hurtigruten. The MS Finnmarken, retired from the coastal express and a museum ship now, is located within the Hurtigruten Museum.

HX Hurtigruten Expeditions

In 2021, Hurtigruten formed a separate business for its expedition cruise business, Hurtigruten Expeditions. In 2024/2025, the company was sold.^[26] As HX Hurtigruten Expeditions, the now separate company operates the ships Spitsbergen, Fridtjof Nansen, Roald Amundsen and Fram^[27] formerly owned by Hurtigruten AS, as well als Santa Cruz II in partnership with the Galapagos company Metropolitan Touring.

Buses

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.^[28]

Car ferries

Hurtigruten AS operated a number of roll-on/roll-off car ferries in Nordland, Troms, Finnmark and Møre og Romsdal.

Hotels

Hurtigruten AS owned two hotels in Bergen; Neptun Hotel and Strand Hotel. The hotels were sold to Bergen Hotel in 2008.^[29]