Why are there Cuban flags on the seats in the Bergen – Flåm ferry?

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1. It’s the old logo of the operator, NORLED.

2. It used to be the Bergen-Havana ferry before the cold war.

3. Deleted.

4. It’s the (old) Norled logo [https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7a/Norled_logo.png](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7a/Norled_logo.png)

5. The company flag was similar to the [Flag of Puerto Rico](https://www.reddit.com/r/vexillology/comments/d1vyfo/norwegian_ferry_company_has_the_puerto_rico_flag/).

   The have changed the flag.
   https://www.oyposten.no/nyheter/i/343vAX/norled-har-faatt-nytt-flagg
   https://www.aftenposten.no/okonomi/i/g6lA/nesten-like-flagg-skapte-diplomatiske-bruduljer

6. It is the flag of DSD [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Det_Stavangerske_Dampskibsselskap](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Det_Stavangerske_Dampskibsselskap) and been used since 1903

   Fun fact here: it is similar to the flag of Puerto Rico which was adopted in 1952, so the question is more “why is puerto rico flying the flag of a norwegian company?”

7. It is the old flag of Norled, the ferry company. It had a flag identical to Puerto Rico between 1903 and 2019. Both the company and Puerto Rico was inspired by the flag of Cuba and made their own flags by basing it on the cuban one just with different colors, it just happened that both settled on the same colors independently. While the Puerto Ricans were the first, Norled adopted theirs officially before Puerto Rico made theirs official, so the company flag was the older offical flag of the two.

8. You can run this through Google Translate: https://www.aftenposten.no/okonomi/i/g6lA/nesten-like-flagg-skapte-diplomatiske-bruduljer

9. It is because Norway is the last Soviet state. 

   https://youtu.be/Hpy-MS0FZno?feature=shared

10. It’s Puerto Rico.

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