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Last updated 2026-09-13

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Port of Skjolden — key facts

Legal entity: Skjolden Cruisekai AS
UN/LOCODE: NOSLN
ISPS port facility: NOSLN-0001 Recognised Security Organisation: Beredskap.no
Position: 61.4832° N, 7.5921° E
Season: mid-April to mid-October
Cruise pier: 127.5 m, 12 m alongside
Vessel limits: 400 m LOA, 12 m draft Beam: no restriction
Calls, 2026: 42 36 completed by 2026-08-31
Passengers, 2026: 97,073 From 21 ships and 13 cruise lines
Next season, 2027: 67 calls confirmed 172,893 guests. Confirmed bookings only. Excludes cancelled and provisional calls.
Booking horizon: Bookings are confirmed as far ahead as 2033. Beyond next season, the port does not publish volumes.
Own coach fleet: 13 coaches, 577 seats Owned outright. Contracted capacity comes on top, taking standard availability to 19 coaches per call
People: Around 100 Roughly 80 % local. 50+ certified guides
Port Director: Viggo Sundvold — Port Director, PFSO and PSO

Guest figures are the port's own record: counted at the gangway for calls that have sailed, booked figures for calls still ahead. Cancelled calls are excluded. Drawn 2026-08-31. Full series on the numbers page.

What the season turns into ashore — employment and local trade — is counted separately and dated the same way.

Full figures and definitions Technical information

Boilerplate

Two lengths, ready to paste

Both are kept current with the figures above, and both are standing description rather than news — anything with a date on it belongs in the body of a release.

Short version

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Port of Skjolden (UN/LOCODE NOSLN) is a dedicated cruise port at the head of the Sognefjord in western Norway — the world's longest ice-free fjord — Norway's longest and deepest — with three national parks and the UNESCO-listed Urnes Stave Church within reach of one quay. The 2026 season comprises 42 calls and 97,073 guests on the season record, and 67 calls are confirmed for 2027. The port owns its excursion fleet outright and employs around 100 people, roughly 80 per cent of them local.

Full version

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Port of Skjolden (UN/LOCODE NOSLN) is a dedicated cruise port at the head of the Sognefjord in western Norway. The Sognefjord is the world's longest ice-free fjord — Norway's longest and deepest, and ships sail all 205 kilometres of it, over water up to 1,308 metres deep, to reach a berth where three national parks — Jotunheimen, Jostedalsbreen and Breheimen — meet the fjord. Galdhøpiggen, the highest mountain in Northern Europe at 2,469 metres, and Jostedalsbreen, the largest glacier in mainland Europe at 474 square kilometres, stand either side of the valley; Urnes Stave Church, a UNESCO World Heritage site from about 1130 whose carvings are regarded as the last chapter of Viking art, is reached by boat across the Lustrafjord from the quay.

The cruise pier is 127.5 metres long with 12 metres of water alongside and takes vessels up to 400 metres LOA and 12 metres draft; a tender pier and anchorage serve calls that do not go alongside. The season runs mid-April to mid-October. The 2026 season comprises 42 calls and 97,073 guests on the season record from 21 ships and 13 cruise lines, and 67 calls with 172,893 guests are already confirmed for 2027. Bookings are confirmed as far ahead as 2033. Beyond next season, the port does not publish volumes. Total capacity is capped at 5,500 lower berths a day. Fresh water, bunkers and shore power are not available at the quay; a shore power feasibility study has been completed and no installation has been built.

The port runs its excursions in-house, on 13 coaches owned outright with 577 seats, at least 50 certified guides and around 30 excursions run with 30 local operators; contracted capacity takes standard availability to 19 coaches on every call. Roughly 100 people are on the payroll, about 80 per cent of them local, and the port takes on at least 30 students from Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Sogndal. It is a member of the Environmental Port Index, under which quay, mooring, passenger and security fees vary with a vessel's reported environmental performance, and it runs on a purpose-built operations platform. Port of Skjolden is operated by Skjolden Cruisekai AS. Media contact: Viggo Sundvold, Port Director, PFSO and PSO, post@skjoldenport.com, +47 458 98 229.

Translations into Norwegian are available on request. If a figure is cited, please carry the date with it — the season figures change through the year.

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Fact sheet and images

Published

One-page fact sheet

English, one A4 page: identifiers, berth and vessel limits, this season's and next season's figures, services, and the port contact. Generated from the same source as this page, so the two cannot drift apart.

Open the fact sheet →

The signed fact sheet PDF is issued on request while the print edition is prepared — write to the port office.

Not yet published

Press images, high resolution

Six to ten photographs of the port, the fjord approach and operations ashore, for editorial use with credit. The pier is ISPS-restricted, so filming there is arranged in advance through the contact below.

The cruise pier from the air in its setting: the deck and its two buildings on the point below a steep wooded mountainside, a coach standing on the shore road, the small-boat harbour further along the shore, and turquoise fjord water filling the foreground — The port as a place: the deck and its two buildings on the point, and the small-boat harbour along the shore.

House style

Commonly reported wrong

Eight claims about Skjolden circulate in a form the port cannot stand behind. Four of them appeared on the port's own previous website.

Correct wording, and the version to avoid.
Subject	Correct	Avoid
The fjord	The world's longest ice-free fjord — Norway's longest and deepest, 205 km long and 1,308 m deep. The ice-free qualifier is not optional.	Incorrect: “The world's longest fjord”, without the qualifier. Scoresby Sund in Greenland is longer — but ice-bound.
The glacier	Jostedalsbreen — the largest glacier in mainland Europe, 474 km². The arm reached from Skjolden is Nigardsbreen.	Incorrect: “Europe's largest glacier”, and the spellings Josterdalen or Josterdalsbreen. The valley is Jostedalen.
The port's head	Viggo Sundvold, Port Director, PFSO and PSO.	Incorrect: “Port Manager.” The title is Port Director.
Shore power	A feasibility study has been completed. No installation has been built and no date is set.	Incorrect: Any wording implying that shore power exists, is under construction or is available on request.
The coach fleet	13 coaches, 577 seats, owned outright — a capacity and supply-chain fact. The King Long coaches are Euro 6 diesel.	Incorrect: Describing the fleet as electric, hybrid, green or as a climate measure. It is none of those.
The operations platform	The port runs on a purpose-built operations platform.	Incorrect: Describing the platform as the port's own software or as an asset the port owns.
Port and destination	Skjolden Cruisekai AS is the port authority. Accommodation, dining and independent activities in the village are run by Skjolden Resort, a separate company.	Incorrect: Attributing hotel, restaurant or spa services to the port.
Season figures	42 calls and 97,073 guests for 2026, drawn 2026-08-31.	Incorrect: Third-party port databases still carry figures from 2019, understating current volume several times over.

Contact

Press enquiries

Media enquiries go directly to the Port Director. Interviews, site visits and pier access are arranged case by case.

Commercial and itinerary enquiries go to the schedule and booking page; accommodation, dining and independent activities belong to Skjolden Resort, a separate company, at skjoldenresort.com.