News - Finland

Wärtsilä names Stefan Damlin President of Wärtsilä Finland Oy

M.Sc. (Econ.) Stefan Damlin (44) has been appointed President of Wärtsilä Finland Oy as of 1 July 2012. Read more/...

The Production of Icebreaking Multipurpose Emergency and Rescue Vessel Started
The production of multipurpose emergency and rescue vessel for Russian Ministry of Transport was started at Yantar Shipyard in Kaliningrad, Russia 24 April 2012. The vessel will be delivered in December 2013.  Read more/...

New and shining horizon for Croisière de France (CDF)

Merima completed CDF Cruise Ship Horizon refurbishing project as scheduled 4th April 2012. Read more/...

Keel-laying of Double Ended Ferry at STX Finland Rauma Shipyard
The keel-laying of the Double Ended Ferry to be built for Suomen Lauttaliikenne Oy (Finferries) was performed at STX Rauma Shipyard on Friday, 20 April 2012. The environmentally friendly next-generation ferry will be delivered to the customer at the end of 2012. The vessel will enter traffic on the Korpo – Houtskär route at the beginning of 2013. Read more/...

Planned Baltic LNG terminal could serve shipping

Gasum wants to build a major LNG import terminal

The Finnish gas company Gasum has announced plans to build a major import terminal for liquefied natural gas (LNG) in Southern Finland that could also service shipping. Read more/...

STX Rauma shipyard delivers polar supply and research vessel

On Wednesday, 4 April 2012, the STX Finland Rauma Shipyard delivered a polar supply and research vessel to the South African government's Department of Environmental Affairs. Newbuilding 1369, S.A. Agulhas II is a multipurpose vessel that, among other tasks, operates as a supply, research and passenger vessel as well as an icebreaker. Read more/...

Cargotec's total solution seals Malaysian straddle carrier deal

Cargotec has secured a deal to supply four of its Kalmar ESC340W Straddle Carriers to leading Malaysian port operator - Northport (Malaysia) Bhd. The 40-tonne models are scheduled for delivery to the company's Port Klang site in September 2012. Read more/...

Finnish researcher arrested in Russia while taking water samples for phosphorus

Finland’s Environmental Administration’s (Syke) researcher Seppo Knuutila was arrested, but later released while he was taking water samples from the Luga river in Russia. Syke is taking water samples from Luga river to determine sources of phosphorus discharges by a fertilizer plant into the Luga river at Kingisepp in north-western Russia. Read more/...

Cargotec's Financial statements review 2011: Orders grew 18 percent and earnings per share doubled Read more/...

Arctech Helsinki Shipyard to build an Innovative Multipurpose Emergency and Rescue Vessel for Russian Ministry of Transport

Arctech Helsinki Shipyard has been awarded a contract to build a multipurpose emergency and rescue vessel for Russian Ministry of Transport. The contract has been awarded together with Shipyard Yantar JSC. The value of the order is about EUR 76 million.  Read more/...

Safe and efficient MacGregor fully-automatic twistlock reduces port turnaround times and increases vessel productivity

Cargotec, in collaboration with the shipping giant A.P. Møller-Maersk A/S (Maersk), has developed a new, safe and efficient MacGregor C8A fully automatic dual-function twistlock. Read more/...

Wärtsilä to supply new design for state-of-the-art pipe laying vessels operating in Brazil

Wärtsilä, the marine industry’s leading solutions provider, is to supply the design and propulsors/positioning system for a series of two new flexible pipe laying vessels (PLVs) for advanced operations. The vessels are to be built at the Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DSME) shipyard in the Republic of Korea. Read more/...