Kristina Cruises, the Finnish company that had to sell its only vessel as part of restructuring its loss making business last week, says it plans to take groups of Finnish passengers on three small German ships from May 2014.

It plans to take groups of 30 to 60 people on board Delphin, Hamburg and FTI Berlin. The first named ship is operated by Passat Kreuzfahrten and it takes a maximum of 470 passengers. It measures at about 17,000 gross tons and was built in the mid-1970s in Finland as a unit of the five-strong Belorussiya class of ships for Soviet owners.

Hamburg is the newest of the three ships, being built in 1997. It is operated by Plantours and takes 420 passengers and is measured at about 15,000 gross tons. It served as C Columbus under the Hapag-Lloyd house flag prior to being taken over by the current operator. The 10,000 gross ton FTI Berlin sails for FTI, a Munich based company; it takes 412 passengers and was built in Germany in 1980.