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Hurtigruten launches agent incentive to win a hybrid car

Specialist
Tom Parry
31 May 2019

Hurtigruten is giving agents the chance to win an electric hybrid car to celebrate its upcoming ships using similar technology.

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The line’s new expedition vessel, Roald Amundsen, will become the world’s first hybrid-powered cruise ship when it enters service next month.

It will be followed by sister ship Fridtjof Nansen in April next year, with a third of the same class due in 2021.

Hurtigruten has said Roald Amundsen’s hybrid technology, combined with “the advanced construction” of its hull and “effective use of electricity onboard”, will reduce the vessel’s fuel consumption and CO2 emissions by about 20%.

The 530-passenger ship will cruise the Norwegian coast, Svalbard and Greenland, before traversing the Northwest Passage and sailing south to Antarctica.