VIVA Cruises' Unique Experiences & Sustainability Redefine River Cruising, Discussing at WTM London
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VIVA Cruises is actually also quite young company only years old currently we have eight dedicated ships which are cruising across Europe
we are not dedicated only to One Market okay we are an international company that means we are open for all markets
we have solar panels which can for instance um generate then the light electricity on Port
from 26 onwards all our ships will cruise with HBO biofuel
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