Viking Line has signed a five-year contract with Wärtsilä technology group for the Viking XPRS passenger ship. This contract is designed to expand the long-term collaboration between the two companies and makes the Viking XPRS the third ship in the Viking Line fleet to benefit from Wärtsilä's lifecycle support services.
Contract Details
The contract is specifically tailored to the operational needs of the Viking XPRS, which operates on the Helsinki-Tallinn route. This agreement includes the ship's Wärtsilä engines and aims to enhance reliability and operational efficiency, improve maintenance cost forecasting, and maximize the ship's availability. To achieve these goals, the scope of the contract includes maintenance planning, scheduled spare parts, customized maintenance support, and a dedicated contract manager responsible for overseeing all maintenance activities.
Past and Future Experiences
Mattias Sundberg, Technical Director of Viking Line, stated: "Our experience with Wärtsilä service contracts on the Viking Grace and Viking Glory ships has shown how a proactive and structured maintenance approach can create added value. Extending this model to the Viking XPRS emphasizes our focus on reliability, operational efficiency, environmental performance, and lifecycle cost predictability across our entire fleet."
Wärtsilä service contracts include technical expertise, maintenance planning, spare parts support, and dedicated lifecycle services designed in a long-term partnership model to improve availability, optimize performance, and reduce operational costs throughout the ship's lifecycle.
Henrik Wilhelmsson, Contract Sales Manager at Wärtsilä Marine, announced: "This agreement demonstrates how Wärtsilä's lifecycle expertise can deliver value throughout the operational life of the ship. By customizing the scope to each customer's needs, we help operators maximize availability, improve reliability, and facilitate cost forecasting. Ultimately, these contracts support the performance of long-term assets and assure customers that their maintenance needs are managed by Wärtsilä experts."
