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Hurtigruten’s custom-built polar vessel Richard With has docked at Norway’s Fosen Yard for a month-long makeover of all cabins, suites and guest areas to make her more modern and environmentally friendly. The vessel, which is named after Hurtigruten’s founder, will be fitted with several new features during the upgrade, which comes at the end of the line’s 125th anniversary year. All accommodation will be fully updated and several of the staterooms on Deck 7 will be merged to create 14 larger suites, some of which will have expansive bay windows. The aft-facing restaurant, Torget, will be renovated and fitted with large deck-to-ceiling windows.

Hurtigruten has signed a contract with Fosen Yard to conduct major refurbishments of two ships, the 1993-built RICHARD WITH and 1994-built NORDLYS. RICHARD WITH will be the first to go to the yard in November this year in what is the most extensive refurbishment programme ever conducted on Hurtigruten’s ships.

At the end of November last year Hurtigruten bought back RICHARD WITH and now they have done the same with NORDLYS. A formal bid for the Kystruten tender has also been submitted.