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Gibraltar’s Minister Daryanani meets with Viking’s Hagen and GrimesGibraltar’s Minister Daryanani meets with Viking’s Hagen and Grimes

Gibraltar’s Minister for Business, Tourism, Transport and the Port Vijay Daryanani met with Torstein Hagen, chairman of Viking, and Matt Grimes, VP maritime operations, on board Viking Venus during a technical call of Viking’s newest ship to Gibraltar.

Mary Bond, Editor in Chief

May 11, 2021

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Credit: Seatrade Cruise News

The Viking executives flew to Gibraltar to join Viking Venus and meet with the minister, who also toured the ship including its full-scale COVID-19 PCR laboratory.

‘I’m delighted to be in Gibraltar to meet Minister Daryanani and to join our newest ship, Viking Venus. I’ve been speaking virtually with Minister Daryanani now for several weeks, discussing possibilities for Gibraltar and it is a pleasure to be here and to meet him in person,’ commented Grimes.

Cruise committment

Daryanani said, ‘It’s great to have one of my first face to face meetings this year with executives from the cruise industry.’

The Minister continued, ‘I’m heavily committed to the cruise industry and this meeting is just one facet of the hard work I am carrying out to ensure the successful return of this important element of our tourism sector.’

Viking Venus naming

Viking Venus is scheduled to be named in the UK on May 17 before embarking on a series of cruises exclusive to vaccinated UK residents. The ship will then move to the Mediterranean where Viking plans to restart operations in in July with new ocean voyages for vaccinated travelers on Viking Venus and Viking Sea from Valletta, Malta.

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Mary Bond

Editor in Chief

Mary Bond is Group Director, Seatrade Cruise a division within Informa Markets and responsible for the Seatrade portfolio of global cruise events, print and online cruise publishing.

Mary is also the publisher and editor-in-chief of Seatrade Cruise News and Seatrade Cruise Review magazine.

Mary has worked in the shipping industry for 39 years, first for Lloyd’s Register of Shipping before joining Seatrade’s editorial team in 1985.

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