Photo: STX Europe
Photo: STX Europe
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The Finnish marine industry has plenty of versatility
and is now scrambling to find new profile projects.
Pages 6–12.
STX Rauma shipyard is hard at work building Spirit
of France – the second in line of two giant new ferries for the Dover-Calais service. Pages 18–21.
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Finnish Maritime Industry Still Swears by Innovation
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Opportunity Knocking: Servicing offshore wind farms
14
Wise Meets the Welder
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Viking Builds World’s First Large LNG Passenger Ferry
17
BV Classifies Special Vessels
18
Second Car-Passenger Ferry for English Channel Nears Completion at Rauma
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Wind – a jack-up barge for servicing wind turbines at sea
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Aslemetals is known as a high quality subcontractor
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Sunshine for Germans, Eclipse for Finns?
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Heroic Homeric
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Cable for Allure
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Arctech Brings Together Finnish and Russian Arctic Shipbuilding Excellence
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Editorial
Specialist in Propulsion Systems and Equipment
seatec 2/2011