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Double Your Pleasure
As Oasis 3 is being built at St. Nazaire in France, it’s not
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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
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Ship classification inspectors keep an alert
eye on shipyards
less stormy seas.
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