Viking lero yalengeza kuti sitima yake yachisanu ndi chimodzi - Viking Jupiter ya alendo 930 - "idayandama," kuwonetsa ntchito yayikulu yomanga komanso nthawi yoyamba yomwe sitimayo yatsopanoyo idakhudza madzi. Ikukonzekera kutumizidwa koyambirira kwa 2019, kufika kwa Viking Jupiter kudzapangitsa Viking kukhala njira yayikulu kwambiri yoyendera sitima yapamadzi pamakampani, patangotha zaka zinayi atayambitsa bizinesi yake yam'nyanja. Wotchedwa polemekeza pulaneti la Jupiter, sitimayo idzathera nyengo yake yoyamba ikuyenda maulendo ku Mediterranean ndi Northern Europe.
"Nthawi zonse ndi nthawi yonyada pamene sitima yatsopano idzagwira madzi kwa nthawi yoyamba ndipo ili pafupi ndi kulandirira alendo," adatero Torstein Hagen, Wapampando wa Viking. "Monga mbadwa yaku Norway, ndilinso wonyadira kulengeza lero Sissel Kyrkjebø, woyimba omwe amayi anga amakonda komanso bwenzi la Viking kwa nthawi yayitali, adzalemekezedwa ngati mulungu wa Viking Jupiter ndipo adzatsogolera mwambo wopatsa dzina la sitimayo ku Oslo, Norway mu June 2019. .”
Mwambo wamwambo woyandama udachitikira pamalo osungiramo zombo za Fincantieri ku Ancona ndipo ndiwofunikira chifukwa ukuwonetsa sitima yomwe ikuyandikira pomaliza kumanga. Kuyandama kwa Viking Jupiter kudayamba cha m'ma 11:30 am nthawi ya komweko ndipo motsatira miyambo yapanyanja, madrina - mayi wapadera wolemekezeka - adathandizira mwambowu, woyamba kuwotcherera ndalama zachikumbutso pansi pa mlongoti wa sitimayo. Woimba waku Norway Sissel Kyrkjebø, yemwe amadziwika kuti ndi m'modzi mwa oimba nyimbo zapamwamba kwambiri padziko lonse lapansi komanso yemwe wakhala amagwirizana ndi chikhalidwe cha Viking, adakhala ngati madrina a Viking Jupiter. Anawotchera ndalama yachikumbutso yoimira chaka chake chobadwa, komanso zaka zobadwa kwa Chairman Hagen (1943) ndi Finse (2012), “galu wamkulu” wa Hagen. Ndalama yapadera, ya 1911, idawokeredwanso kuyimira Ragnhild "Mamsen" Hagen, amayi a Chairman Hagen ndi mayi yemwe adatchulidwanso dzina la Norwegian deli Mamsen's. Kenako Kyrkjebø anadula chingwe kuti madzi ayambe kuyenda padoko la sitimayo. Kutsatira ndondomeko ya masiku awiri yomwe idzapangitse Viking Jupiter kuyandama, sitimayo idzasunthidwa kumalo osungiramo zovala pafupi kuti amange komaliza ndikumanganso mkati.
Viking Jupiter
Sitima zapamadzi za Viking zili ndi matani okwana 47,800, zili ndi ma staterooms 465 ndikulandila alendo 930. Wodziwika ndi Cruise Critic® ngati "ngalawa yaying'ono," Viking Jupiter yomwe ili ndi ma veranda onse ilumikizana ndi zombo zapamadzi zopambana za Viking, zomwe zikuphatikizanso Viking Star®, Viking Sea®, Viking Sky® ndi Viking Sun®. Viking ilandila sitima yake yachisanu, Viking Orion®, ku zombozi mu June 2018. Zombo zina khumi zikukonzekeranso kutumizidwa kuyambira 2021, zomwe zitha kubweretsa zombo za Viking ku zombo 16 pofika 2027.
