FINLAND Name/client
TransPulp/Transatlantic Liberty of the Seas/RCI Contentin/Brittany Ferries Color Magic/Color Line Tallink Star/Tallink
type
ro-ro/container cruise ship trailer ropax ferry
Color Superspeed I /C. Line fast pax-car ferry Viking Line
fast ferry
Endeavour of the Seas/RCI cruise ship Color Superspeed II/C. Line fast pax-car ferry Luxury/Tallink
fast ropax ferry
Color Line's cruise ferry Color Magic being towed from the Turku shipyard to the Rauma yard for final outfitting. An increasing number of Aker Yards' vessels are built at several locations.
Armorique/Brittany Ferries Project Genesis/RCI
cruise ferry ropax ferry cruiseship
GT 23,128
158,000 22,000 75,000 30,000 33,500 34,000
158,000 33,500 48,900 28,500
220,000 Place of delivery: T= Turku yard, R = Rauma yard H = Helsinki yard Table1: Newbuilding orderbook at Aker Yards Finland (January 2007)
delivery 2007 (R)
2007/ spring (T)
2007/12 (R) 2008/01 (H)
2008/10 (H) 2009 (T)
2007/ autumn (H) e80m 2007/10 (T)
2008/spring (T) 2008/04 (R)
approx. price e50m $720m
2007/spring (H) e110m e116m e125m
e325m
2008/summer (H) e165m e110m e900m
> $800m e116m
In January 2007, Aker Yards announced its
latest new shipyard joint venture, to be set up in Vietnam for offshore vessel construction for the Asian market (Seeps). This is the first shipyard in Asia to be established by Aker Yards. The shipyard will be a joint venture between Aker Yards (70%) and Singapore-based Amanda Group (30%). In November the orderbook of Aker Yards'
business area Cruise & Ferries alone amounted to someE5.9 billion, consisting of 20 newbuildings some of which are being built in France and in Germany. Aker Yards France is building two big cruise vessels for NCL, four cruise vessels for MSC Cruises and a small French ropax ferry. Two 62,000gt ferries for Swedish Stena Rederi AB are designed in Finland but will be built in Germany for delivery in 2010, as the yards in Finland and France were fully booked. In
addition, there are options worth further vessels with RCI, MSC, NCL, Color Line and Stena. Viking Line cancelled its options at Aker Yards Finland, in the wake of Tallink's acquisition of Silja Line. The newbuilding orderbook of Aker Yards Finland is presented in Table 1.
Split shipbuilding The trend of designing and building the vessels in the orderbook at several locations seems to be an ever growing trend at Aker Yards. The Norwegian yards have had their supply ship hulls successfully built in Romania and Poland, and now also in Ukraine, where the labour costs are lower. Aker Yards Helsinki is today only capable of assembly and outfitting, and has to rely on other facilities for block construction, primarily the Turku yard, the capacity of which is
stretched with today's orderbooks. For example Viking Line's, Tallink's and Brittany Ferries' newbuildings are having their blocks built in Turku, Rauma, partly in Gdansk (Tallink Star) or France (the entire hull for Tallink's Galaxy sistership). Color Magic, on the other hand, had 15% of its outfitted blocks built at the yard in Wismar, with the remaining blocks built at the Turku Yard, where assembly also took place. In December the vessel was towed to the Rauma yard for final construction and outfitting. The hulls of Transatlantic's ro-ro/container vessels are being built at Aker Yards Ostsee (Wismar) and partly by Stocznia Gdansk and Wisla in Gdansk, with outfitting at the Rauma yard. While this type of split work arrangement
works well for handling peak loads, it is not considered optimal as a permanent solution.
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