The city council of Eidfjord has established a new company, Visit Eidfjord KF, to take over the cruise marketing of Hardangerjord as well as port operations at Eifjord and Ulvik, which Tangerås will head up from November 1, 2023.
Tangerås has been CEO at Cruise Norway since 2017 and before that port director in Bergen for six years. He also has experience in ship construction, offshore projects, finance, maritime service, fish farming and consultancy.
Born and bred in Hardanger
Tangerås, born in Hardanger, will have responsibility of all cruise business in the ports of Eidfjord and Ulvik. Eidjford added a new cruise berth in 2005 and since then has seen annual calls grow from 17 to 80 bringing more than 200,000 passengers a year.
‘This is an exciting opportunity and I look forward to doing a job for this wonderful part of Norway, where I am born and raised,’ he told Seatrade Cruise News.
Seatrade Europe
For the next three months, Tangerås said he has a busy time working out his notice at Cruise Norway with fam trips and events to attend, including Seatrade Europe in Hamburg in September.
Ahead of his retirement Møller will also be in Hamburg representing Hardangerfjord. He has spend over 30 years marketing and promoting tourism to Norway’s Hardanger region.
Some 20 ships from 23 different cruise lines will visit in 2023.
‘Significant investments in attractions in the surrounding area have created multiple shore excursions both for children and adults,’ Møller explained and he has high expectations for future cruise business in Hardangerfjord with the creation of the new port and marketing manager position.
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