TUI Cruises, the Hamburg based premium market cruise shipping company, will offer for the first time cruises from Singapore in the winter of 2015-16, the company said in a statement.

Three 7-night itineraries will be on offer, one focusing on Thailand, the other one on Vietnam and the third one on Malaysia. They are offered as fly cruises and also on cruise only basis.

TUI Cruises will base Mein Schiff 1 in Singapore's Marina Bay Cruise Centre to operate the cruises. The company currently has four ships in service and further four newbuildings on order.