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06 Contents 02 Editorial 14 Double Your Pleasure As Oasis 3 is being built at St. Nazaire in France, it’s not 06 Six Shooter all French you here around the shipyard. Finnish companies The Turku shipyard has certainly hit the ground running under a new have shown up in numbers to help construct this behemoth management. On October 10, 2014, the first-ever float-out under – which is no wonder, given the fact that the Turku shipyard new ownership, Meyer Werft, was made as cruise ship Mein Schiff 4 in Finland built the first two Oasis class ships. got in touch with the water element. CEO Jan Meyer remarked that the day was special in many ways and he was not wrong – after all the turmoil of the “Korean era,” the Turku shipyard is now hoping for 22 Ship classification inspectors keep an alert eye on shipyards less stormy seas. 14 4 seatec 1/2015