FleetPro Passenger Ship Management
FleetPro Passenger Ship Management was founded in 2012 as a merger of two existing passenger ship management companies and is based in Switzerland. It combined International Shipping Partners (ISP), a passenger ship management services company headquartered in Miami, Florida, United States, and River Advice of Basel, Switzerland. The majority owners became a Netherlands-based private equity fund.[1] In January 2014 the two operations were renamed FleetPro Ocean and FleetPro River respectively.
Management and administrative services provided include deck and engine manning, maintenance, drydockings,[2] inspections, conversions, upgradings and volume purchasing.[3]
Former sea-going fleet
- Akademik Ioffe
- Akademik Sergey Vavilov
- Ambassador II
- Batanga Queen/Discovery Sun
- Beauport
- Caribbean Carrier (freight roro)
- Clipper Pearl/Clipper Pacific/Festival/Ocean Pearl
- Dolphin IV
- Enchanted Capri
- Europa Jet/Club Royale
- Island Breeze/The Big Red Boat III
- Island Sky
- Kapitan Khlebnikov
- Manistal/St Tropez
- Maya Express (freight roro)
- OceanBreeze
- Ola Esmeralda
- Palm Beach Princess
- MS Regal Empress
- Regal Voyager
- Rembrandt
- Royal Star
- Scandinavian Dawn/Discovery Dawn/Island Dawn
- Scandinavian Song/Santiago de Cuba/The Empress
- Scandinavian Star[4]
- Seabreeze I, which sank in suspicious conditions in 2000.[5]
- Seawind Crown
- Sonia
- Sun Fiesta
- The Big Red Boat II
Current sea-going fleet
FleetPro's fleet consists of mid- to small-size passenger vessels:
- Bahamas Celebration
- Clipper Odyssey/Silver Discoverer
- Freewinds
- Gemini
- Oasia
- Ocean Atlantic
- Ocean Diamond
- Ocean Endeavour
- Ocean Nova
- Ocean Pearl
- Perla (general cargo ship)
- Quest
- Scotia Prince/Prince
- Sea Adventurer
- Sea Discoverer
- Sea Explorer
- Sea Spirit
- Sea Voyager. ISP helped bring the vessel out of layup in 2010, to be used in providing accommodations for World Food Programme staff engaged in relief efforts in earthquake-stricken Haiti[6]
- Warrior Spirit
FleetPro also operate over forty inland waterways cruise vessels.
References
- "FleetPro Passenger Ship Management Establish the Leading Passenger Ship Management Company". Bloomberg Businessweek. 1 November 2012. Retrieved 16 February 2014.
- SHEPPARD, Suzanne (January 30, 2005). "Vessel good for 25 more years". Trinidad and Tobago Newsday. Archived from the original on 26 April 2012. Retrieved 26 April 2012.
- "Ship Management". FleetPro Passenger Ship Management. Retrieved 16 February 2014.
- Asklander, Micke. "M/S Massalia" (in Swedish). Retrieved 26 April 2012.
- "Crew rescued from sinking ship". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Dec 18, 2000. Retrieved 26 April 2012.
- "USA. Lloyd's Register classes International Shipping Partners Sea Voyager to offer accommodation for Haiti relief workers". 19 March 2010. Archived from the original on 22 February 2014. Retrieved 26 April 2012.