Skip to main content

Ambassador merges with French cruise operator to create new group with larger fleet

News
Harry Kemble
10 January 2025

Ambassador Cruise Line has merged with French cruise operator Compagnie Francaise de Croisieres (CFC) to form the Ambassador Group which will operate a three-ship fleet.

  • Ambassador Cruise Line has merged with French operator Compagnie Francaise de Croisieres to form the Ambassador Group, operating a three-ship fleet

  • The fleet includes Ambience, Ambition, and Renaissance, targeting the "no-fly silver market" 

  • Renaissance will undergo environmental upgrades to meet IMO Tier III compliance by April 2025

  • The group will offer a fly-cruise Caribbean program starting October, departing from Barbados, Martinique, and Curacao

Christian Verhounig Ambassador.jpg

Ambassador CEO Christian Verhounig said the group would offer 'affordable, high-quality, authentic and environmentally responsible cruises'

The group will be majority owned by Ambassador’s existing shareholders, Njord Partners, with investment management firm Cheyne Capital taking a minority stake. 

Its fleet will comprise of the Ambience, Ambition and Renaissance ships offering sailings mainly to the “no-fly silver market”. The ships’ capacities range from 1,200 to 1,400 passengers. 

Renaissance will enter dry dock this month to undergo a series of environmental upgrades to make the vessel IMO Tier III compliant with sister ships Ambience and Ambition. It will become IMO Tier III complaint from April 2025.