Pan Am Cruises

Pan Am Cruises is a global cruise line providing ocean, river and expedition cruises. Part of the Dutch-American travel company Pan Am Holdings, Pan Am Cruises operates as an interlocked web of three -domiciled divisions of the company - Pan Am Ocean Cruises B.V., Pan Am River Cruises B.V. and Pan Am Expedition Cruises B.V. - with operational headquarters in and marketing headquarters in.

History
The idea of a cruise line housed under the Pan Am banner was the idea of Martein Rademakers, who led the consortium that purchased the Pan Am airline out of bankruptcy in 1992. By 1996, he had designs for cruise ships drawn up.

On March 1, 1998, Pan Am announced the launch of Pan Am Cruises, with operations planned to start around 2000 at the earliest and 2002 at the latest. Pan Am Cruises commissioned its first two ships - Pan Am Voyager and Pan Am Adventurer - from in,. They formed the first two ships of Pan Am's Ocean Clipper class, which eventually grew to two additional ships, Pan Am Traveler and Pan Am Wanderer, built in 2003 and 2004 respectively.

On July 14, 2002, Voyager, after a transatlantic crossing from Germany to its home port of in, had its maiden voyage, calling in the ports of ,  and. Adventurer, following a transatlantic crossing from Germany to its home port in, had its maiden voyage on July 21, 2002 for a Mediterranean cruise.