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Baltic Workboats

Test Ride

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Performance Where It Counts

Marine News joined Weber for a test run where the Long to take it,” Weber said. “They line up the technician, the

Island Sound meets the Atlantic Ocean and con? rmed the parts — everything. They take ownership.”

For Mahler, that responsiveness is part of Baltic’s cul- handling difference. “The Humphree system is amazing.

With the bow trimmed down, it sliced through four-foot ture. “Our project managers treat each vessel like their chop — zero slamming,” Weber said. “When you raise the own. Whether it’s Sunday or midnight, if the customer bow, you feel the pounding come back. That system alone calls, we answer. That’s just how we do business.”

Baltic Workboats employs about 250 people at its pri- makes this boat.”

Noise levels were another revelation. “The engines are mary yard in Nasva, Estonia, with another 500 working right below the wheelhouse, but you can’t hear them,” he across its two Finnish facilities owned through Summa said. “It’s quiet, solid, and so much less fatiguing. That Defense. Baltic Workboats’ Estonia yard delivers about 10 vessels annually, with revenues topping €125 million — a means better crew awareness and communication.”

He added that the Volvo D13MH engines, paired with ? ve-fold increase over the past decade.

In addition to pilot boats, the company’s portfolio in-

CJR propellers, deliver both speed and fuel economy, while the Sleipner hydraulic bow thruster and Kobelt cludes ferries, patrol craft, SAR vessels, pollution-control steering system make close-quarters docking easy, vital ships, research vessels, tugs, and dredges, as well as alterna- tively powered vessels. “More than half of our production when threading between narrow piers in heavy crosswinds.

over the last ? ve years has been hybrid, electric, or hydro- gen fuel-cell,” Mahler noted.

Support That Doesn’t Sleep

Baltic’s technical reach extends through its sister com-

After-sales support has been equally strong. “If some- thing goes wrong, I snap a photo, upload it through their pany, Baltic Marine Group, Northern Europe’s largest dis- 50 | MN November 2025