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Cruise Industry Annual

Plug and Play an Piikkio Works OY, company 100 percent

Kvaerner Masa Yards, independent maintaining a technical and design owned by advantage in the construction, delivery prides itself on and installation of prefabricated cabins for cruise ships. Bringing the saying "plug and play" to an entirely new level, the company coordinates nearly 150 subcontractors to design, build and deliver on-time, on-budget - up to 6,000 complete suites and staterooms per year.

Piikkio Works is owned by Kvaerner

Masa Yards, and perhaps no greater tes- tament to its system is needed than to note that its cabins are used by a host of other cruise ship builders, most notably

Germany's Meyer Werft. With Kvaerner

Masa Yards now under the Aker

Kvaerner umbrella, it would seem that in Maritime ^ equipment

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