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Cruise Shipping: Shipyard

Building Big

BY ERIC HAUN aritime Reporter & En- through the Finnish Industry Investment continue to be stable.” GT remain the builder’s focus. gineering News recently Ltd.). It was renamed Meyer Turku Oy, Meyer Turku, which together with sis- The ships for Carnival and RCCL are visited Finnish shipbuild- and eventually the company exercised ter shipyard Meyer Werft in Papenburg, “the really big ones, the ones that will

Ming giant Meyer Turku, an option to take complete control of Germany, holds roughly one-third of the start generating the growth in our fu- whose sights are set on building bigger. the yard in May 2015. Since the take- world’s cruise ship orderbook, is poised ture,” he said.

It is safe to say that when shipbuild- over, Meyer Turku has produced several to build bigger as it ful? lls its order book “With this order book,” Pulli said, “the ing commenced in the town of Turku, ships, including the 99,000+ GT ships stretching through 2024. growth will continue above 300,000 GT

Finland in 1737, the company building Mein Schiff 4 and Mein Schiff 6 for TUI New builds produced at Meyer Turku per year from 2022, and this means a tri- wooden boats a the time could not have Cruises, and most recently the dual-fuel will grow increasingly larger in the com- ple employment effort compared to the envisioned the behemoth vessels that cruise ferry Megastar for Tallink deliv- ing years, with three 100,000-110,000 last years.” would eventually be built by the site’s ered in January 2017 (see related story, GT ships for TUI for delivery through This will require facility upgrades and current occupant, Meyer Turku. page 50.) 2019; up to 180,000 GT for Carnival’s a workforce increase at Meyer Turku,

The Meyer family, operator of the Though the yard has the capability to four ships due from 2019 to 2022; and which currently employs roughly 1,600,

German shipbuilding company Meyer produce other types of vessels, Tapani then up again to an estimated 200,000- all of whom are Finnish excluding man-

Werft, took over the nearly 300-year-old Pulli, Deputy to the CEO, explained, 210,000 GT for two ships to Royal Ca- agement.

Turku yard in September 2014 together “We are purely in the cruise ship build- ribbean Cruise Line in 2022 and 2024. The yard’s production ramp-up is also with the Finnish government (which ing market at the moment as its growth And with one slot open in early 2023, good news for its surrounding subcon- purchased 30% of the share capital has been stable and is also expected to Pulli said large cruise ships over 150,000 tractors. “The domestic value of our

Mein Schiff 5 ? oat out

The cruise ship was delivered in June 2016.

The Meyer Turk Order Book capable Ship Owner Delivery GT LNG

Mein Schiff 6 TUI Cruises 2017 100,000 No

New Mein Schiff 1 TUI Cruises 2018 110,000 No

New Mein Schiff 2 TUI Cruises 2019 110,000 No

Unnamed Carnival 2019 180,000 Yes

Unnamed* Carnival 2020 180,000 Yes

Unnamed Carnival 2021 180,000 Yes

Unnamed* Carnival 2022 180,000 Yes

Unnamed* RCCL 2022 200,000 (est.) Yes + Fuel Cell

Unnamed* RCCL 2024 200,000 (est.) Yes + Fuel Cell *MOU only 24 Maritime Reporter & Engineering News • FEBRUARY 2017

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