British crocieristica company CMV has bought the TransOcean Kreuzfahrten



The crocieristica company British Cruise & Maritime Voyages (CMV), that it takes part of the Maritime Global Greek group Group, has bought the German company TransOcean Kreuzfahrten. The Germanic society is yielded by the Premicon AG, investment trust with center to Monk of Bavaria that is constituted in 1998 and that it is specialized in the management of deep for investments in cruise ships.

With acquisition CMV it has obtained the immediate responsibility of the chartering, management and commercialization of the oceanic cruise ship Astor, that it has an ability to 600 passengers. Moreover the agreement includes the chartering of the fleet of fluvial cruise ships Lookout (ability 176 passengers), Bellefleur (150 pax), Bellejour (180 pax) and Sans Souci (80 pax) that it is employed on the main European rivers. Currently the fleet of CMV is constituted by the oceanic cruise ships Marco Polo (800 pax) and Discovery (700 pax) and by the fluvial cruise ship Vienna (160 pax) that it is operated under the new brand Signature Riveer Cruise.

The objective of the acquisition of the TransOcean, than work they give beyond 50 years, is the expansion of CMV on the German market. The fleet of the German company will continue to being commercialized with the TransOcean brand and the crocieristico produced one will be turned at the market of German language.

"The income in the German market by CMV - the managing director and chairman of the British group has explained, Christian Verhounig - is another important step in the expansion and strategic development of the presence of the group in the widest international market". In 2011, in fact, the CMV have instituted one trade commission to Fort Lauderdale with the scope to develop own activity on the North American market and last year it has opened a trade commission to dedicated Sydney at the market Australian. Moreover in the first trimester of the 2013 British group it has constituted also an office of ship management to Monk of Bavaria. "By the launch of CMV in 2010 - it has added Verhounig - the bases are placed in order to construct a solid vertically integrated activity that it comprises complete services of ship managements in-house devised in order to offer producing high-quality which supported from a brand that now is earning an international acknowledgment very more wide one through business activity dedicated in the United Kingdom, the United States and Australia".