The MS Bore Star was a cruiseferry owned by Chryses Finance Co. and operated by Ilion Lines on their Trieste–Durrës–Bari service.

During the northern hemisphere winter months she was chartered to Finnlines for cruise services on the African west coast.

[1][3][4] In June 1976 Bore Star was finally set on the traffic she was built for, and sailed as a third ship on the Helsinki—Stockholm service alongside her sisters MS Svea Corona[5] and MS Wellamo[6] until the end of October 1976[1][3] (she also briefly served on the Turku—Stockholm route in May and September[citation needed]).

[1][3] At this time passenger numbers on the Baltic Sea were raising rapidly and Finland SS Co (which had changed its name to Effoa in 1976) and Svea were planning to build new ships for the Helsinki—Stockholm service.

In April 1986 she re-emerged as MS Orient Express and started sailing on a route connecting Venice, Pireus and Istanbul.

In December of the same year Europe Cruise Line bought the ship, but in May 1990 she was chartered back to Sea Containers, again renamed Orient Express and set on the Venice—Istanbul service.

[1][3] Between April and May 1992 the Orient Sun was rebuilt at Kotkan Telakka Oy, Kotka, Finland, for service on EffJohn's subsidiary Wasa Line.

[9] Wasa Queen was repainted in Silja Line's colours, but this time (somewhat surprisingly) her name wasn't changed, and she was kept on traffic from Vaasa.

During the same year tax free sales ended in traffic within the EU, meaning that most profits on the Vaasa—Umeå service disappeared.

On December 31, 2000, Silja Line closed down traffic across kvarken completely, and Wasa Queen was laid up in Vaasa awaiting potential buyers.

At the end of that charter, on July 28, the ship was sold to Star Cruises and set sails for Singapore.

[citation needed] On 9 July 2007 Wasa Queen began making 12-hour casino cruises out of Port Klang, Malaysia.