{"id":117223,"date":"2026-06-26T22:33:27","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T22:33:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/117223\/"},"modified":"2026-06-26T22:33:27","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T22:33:27","slug":"vessels-to-change-hands-and-names-in-bermuda-the-royal-gazette","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/117223\/","title":{"rendered":"Vessels to change hands and names in Bermuda – The Royal Gazette"},"content":{"rendered":"

Created: Jun 25, 2026 07:51 AM<\/p>\n

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Name change: two ships due a renaming have been in Bermuda waters for the past few days (Photograph supplied)<\/p>\n

Two cargo ships moored in Bermuda for the past few days are here to undergo name and ownership changes.<\/p>\n

The roll-on\/roll-off car carriers, Viking Odessa and Viking Oslo, have been sighted in local waters \u2014 most recently in the Great Sound.<\/p>\n

It came a week after a similar vessel, the Grendi Futura, docked at<\/a> the East End for engine repairs.<\/p>\n

The 140-metre Odessa was built in 2009 and sails under the flag of the Marshall Islands, while the identical Oslo, under the same flag, was completed a year later.<\/p>\n

Joe Simas, vice-president of marine operations at Meyer Agencies, told The Royal Gazette the vessels had come to Bermuda for a renaming under new ownership.<\/p>\n

The Viking Odessa will soon be known as the Polaris Star, while the Viking Oslo is set to change to Polaris Oslo.<\/p>\n

Mr Simas explained the ships needed to travel to a foreign port to change names, adding that it was not the first time this had happened in Bermuda.<\/p>\n

Both vessels are due to depart this weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Created: Jun 25, 2026 07:51 AM Name change: two ships due a renaming have been in Bermuda waters…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":117224,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[85],"tags":[20051,157,156,3661,58407],"class_list":["post-117223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oslo","tag-container-ships","tag-norway","tag-oslo","tag-shipping","tag-waterway-and-maritime-transport"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/116818792220193765","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117223\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}