The 998-Visitor Viking Vela was Named in Fincantieri’s Hometown of Trieste, Italy
LOS ANGELES–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Viking ® (www.viking.com) (NYSE: VIK) right this moment named its latest ocean ship, the Viking Vela ®, with a standard ceremony in Trieste, Italy. The naming of the Viking Vela additionally served as a celebration of Viking’s longtime partnership with Fincantieri, which is among the world’s largest shipbuilding teams and relies in Trieste. With its wealthy maritime historical past, Trieste is taken into account the endpoint to the maritime Silk Highway and is now Italy’s most vital business port. Serving as ceremonial godmother of the Viking Vela was Ivana Elice, Vice President and Mission Supervisor of the Fincantieri Cruise Business Unit, who has overseen the design and engineering of Viking’s ocean ships for 12 years.
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Viking right this moment named its latest ocean ship, the Viking Vela, with a standard naming ceremony in Trieste, Italy. Pictured right here, Torstein Hagen, Chairman and CEO of Viking with Karine Hagen, Viking Govt Vice President of Product, Ivana Elice, godmother of the Viking Vela and Ann Ziff, godmother of the Viking Saturn. For extra info, go to www.viking.com. (Photograph: Business Wire)
We’re proud to welcome the Viking Vela to our rising, award-winning fleet. With Fincantieri as our accomplice, we imagine we have now constructed the world’s most elegant fleet of small ocean ships, stated Torstein Hagen, Chairman and CEO of Viking. We thank Ivana Elice for being godmother of the Viking Vela. In her function at Fincantieri, she has cared for our ocean ships throughout their building simply as a godmother would, and we’re very appreciative of her contributions as a member of the prolonged Viking household.
In step with the naming custom, through the ceremony, Ivana was introduced with a historic Viking broad axe by Ann Ziff, the esteemed philanthropist, Chairman of the Metropolitan Opera (NASDAQ:) and godmother of the Viking Saturn ®. The identical axe was beforehand used within the naming of the Viking Saturn in June 2023. After the axe presentation, Ivana pressed a button that allowed a bottle of Norwegian aquavit to interrupt on the ship’s hull. Visitors additionally loved performances by Sissel Kyrkjebø, one of many world’s main crossover sopranos and godmother of the Viking Jupiter ®, and acclaimed Italian singer Alessandro Safina, who paid tribute to the cultures of each Norway and Italy in track.
Ivana Elice, Godmother of the Viking Vela
Ivana Elice, Vice President and Mission Supervisor of the Fincantieri Cruise Business Unit, has loved a distinguished profession in naval and mechanical engineering, serving to help the enlargement of the Viking ocean fleet for the previous 12 years. In 2012, Ms. Elice was appointed by Fincantieri to supervise the construct of Viking’s first ocean ship, the Viking Star ®, and she or he has continued to function worthwhile help for the enlargement of Viking’s fleet of sister ships. She joined Fincantieri in 1985 after graduating from the College of Genoa with a grasp’s diploma in naval structure and mechanical engineering. Her preliminary function as a noise and vibration specialist throughout the firm’s Naval Vessel Division concerned helping with the design of floor ships and submarines. Since 1993, she has held a number of positions inside Fincantieri’s Service provider Division within the areas of hydrodynamics, ship building, manufacturing engineering and extra.
The Viking Vela
The Viking Vela is the most recent ship in Viking’s award-winning ocean fleet of sister ships. Categorised as a small ship, as are all Viking ocean ships, the Viking Vela has a gross tonnage of 54,300 tons, with 499 staterooms that may host 998 visitors; the ships characteristic all veranda staterooms, elegant Scandinavian design, light-filled public areas and ample al fresco eating choices. The Viking Vela will spend her inaugural season crusing itineraries through the quiet season within the Mediterranean earlier than persevering with to Northern Europe.
Viking is engaged on a venture for a partial hybrid propulsion system for future ocean ships primarily based on liquid hydrogen and gas cells, which might enable the corporate to function at zero-emission within the Norwegian Fjords and different delicate environments. The Viking Vela has been designed with the long run in thoughts, guaranteeing she will be retrofitted to include these new applied sciences as they turn out to be accessible.
The naming of the Viking Vela follows a string of latest accolades for the corporate. Viking was rated #1 for Oceans, #1 for Rivers and #1 for Expeditions by Condé Nast Traveler within the 2024 Readers’ Alternative Awards for the second consecutive yr. This achievement marked the primary time a journey firm gained these three classes in back-to-back years. Viking was additionally named Greatest Luxurious Line, Greatest Line for {Couples} and Greatest Line within the Mediterranean in U.S. Information & World Report’s 2025 Greatest Cruise Strains rating for the fourth consecutive yr. Viking’s ocean ships have been rated and Really helpful as a part of the Forbes Journey Information 2024 Star Awards, an annual impartial analysis for luxurious journey manufacturers. Moreover, Viking obtained seven awards on the 2023 Cruise Critic Editors’ Picks Awards”greater than some other line”throughout the posh, river and expedition classes.
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About Viking
Viking (NYSE: VIK) was based in 1997 and gives destination-focused journeys on rivers, oceans and lakes world wide. Designed for curious vacationers with pursuits in science, historical past, tradition and delicacies, Chairman and CEO Torstein Hagen usually says Viking provides experiences For The Pondering Individual™. Viking has greater than 450 awards to its title, together with being rated #1 for Rivers, #1 for Oceans and #1 for Expeditions by Condé Nast Traveler within the 2023 and 2024 Readers’ Alternative Awards. Viking can also be rated a World’s Greatest for rivers, oceans and expeditions by Journey + Leisure. No different journey firm has concurrently obtained the identical honors by each publications. For added info, contact Viking at 1-800-2-VIKING (1-800-284-5464) or go to www.viking.com. For Viking’s award-winning enrichment channel, go to www.viking.television.
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