R
auma Marine Constructions Oy (RMC)
re-opened Rauma shipyard in the
summer of 2014. The company started
work by repair and maintenance projects
of numerous ships, as well as assem-
bling specialised steel structures and con-
structing ’floating real estates’ for coastal
resorts.
Since the summer of 2016, however,
Rauma shipyard has been back in the ship-
building business. RMC received an order
for building a passenger and car vessel
from Molslinjen A/S in Denmark.
Building of the new vessel has also
given a boost to RMC’s subcontractors in
the Finnish maritime cluster, as well as to
business life in general on the west coast
region.
The actual shipbuilding work for the
vessel was started at Rauma shipyard in
March 2017.
SHIP TESTS ONGOING
The new ship has a length of 158 metres
and a maximum width of 24.5 metres. The
average cruising speed will be 17.7 knots.
”At the present time, wharf tests for
this new RoPax vessel have been started.
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