Hurtigruten’s bottom touch: Cancels all ports to Bergen – Nordlys

– Serious and undesirable event, says Hurtig.

Hurtigruten ship MS Finnmarken affected bottom heading through Finnsnesrenna Thursday night.

the ship is now docked in Finnsnes, where it has been examined by divers.

– the divers reporting injuries helm confirms that there has been a bottom touch, says communications manager Stein Lillebo Hurtigruten.

– serious incident

He characterizes the incident as serious and undesirable.

– It happened by gjennomselingen of Finnsnesrenna night. There was fog, poor visibility and a lot of power, says Lillebo.

Finnsnesrenna is known to be very narrow, and it should just meters displacement of large ships risking contact with the bottom.

– There have been no drama, says Lillebo.

Bottom The Touch has major consequences for the operation of Hurtigruten. All MS Finnmarken Port south to Bergen canceled.

470 passengers affected

MS Finnmarken sailed now to Harstad, where we will take her into dry dock for more underøskelser and repairs.

– All disembark in Harstad. They are rebooked to other ships, getting alternative travel to their destination or are offered earlier repatriation, said Lillebo.

The number of affected passengers is around 470.

Stein Lillebo emphasizes that Hurtigruten will follow up the matter.

– we follow this up routinely as an unwanted event, and it will be written report on this so we can avoid similar incidents in the future, he said.