Meyer Turku

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Meyer Turku Oy
Formerly STX Finland Oy
Company type Osakeyhtiö
Industry Shipbuilding
Predecessor Wärtsilä Marine
Founded7 November 1989 (1989-11-07) as Masa-Yards Turku New Shipyard [1]
FoundersFinnish state
Martin Saarikangas
Ted Arison
Headquarters Perno,
Turku
,
Finland
Key people
Tim Meyer (CEO) [2]
Products Cruise ships, passenger ferries and special ships [3]
Revenue
  • Increase2.svg €1,432,472,000 (2023)
  • Increase2.svg€1,295,528,000 (2022) [1]
  • Decrease2.svg–€37,976,000 (2023)
  • Increase2.svg€20,310,000 (2022) [1]
Number of employees
2,200 (12/2023) [1]
Parent Meyer Werft GmbH
Subsidiaries
  • Piikkio Works Oy
  • Shipbuilding Completion Oy
  • ENG'nD Oy
Website meyerturku.fi

Meyer Turku Oy is a Finnish shipbuilding company located in Turku, Finland Proper. The company is fully owned by German shipbuilder Meyer Werft GmbH. The main products are cruise ships and cruiseferries.

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The shipbuilding facility is Perno shipyard in Turku. The yard area is 144 hectares and it is equipped with a 365-metre-long dry dock and two bridge cranes with capacities of 600 and 1,200 tonnes. Additionally, the company owns subsidiaries Shipbuilding Completion Oy, Rauma-based ENG'nD Oy and Piikkiö-located cabin builder Piikkio Works Oy.

The company was founded in November 1989 under name Masa-Yards Oy to continue operations of the previously bankrupted Wärtsilä Marine. The heritage, however, goes back to 1737 when industrial shipbuilding was first started in Turku.

Company

Meyer Turku Oy is fully owned by Germany-based Meyer Werft GmbH.[ citation needed ]

Perno shipyard

Aerial views of Perno shipyard, Turku, Finland with Icon of the Seas and Carnival Celebration cruise ships under construction, year 2022.

The main facility is Turku shipyard that is situated in Perno, Turku. The yard area is 144 hectares and it is equipped with a dry dock that is 365 metres long, 80 metres wide and 10 metres deep. The main crane is a bridge crane with 600 tonnes capacity.[ citation needed ]

Piikkio Works

Ship cabins are built in a separate factory in Piikkiö, Kaarina under subsidiary Piikkio Works Oy. The company employs 134 people and its turnover was €38.9 million in 2014. [4]

Shipbuilding Completion

Shipbuilding Completion designs and builds ship interior outfitting and operates in Perno shipyard premises. [5] The company turnover was €13.3 million in 2015 when it employed 16 people (2014). [6]

ENG'nD

ENG'nD is an engineering company that is specialised on piping and electrical wiring system design. The company is based in Rauma and its turnover was €2.7 million in 2015. [7]

History

Heritage

History of industrial shipbuilding in Turku goes back to 1737, when the Swedish king gave to Turku merchants Esaias Wechter and Henric Rungeen a licence for shipbuilding next to river Aura. They recruited Scottish master shipbuilder Robert Fithie to lead the shipbuilding projects. After Wechter and Rungeen discontinued shipbuilding, Fithie founded a new company which later became known as Turku Old Shipyard. [8] The company was taken over by William Crichton who incorporated it into his own company W:m Crichton & C:o in 1882. The main customer was Imperial Russian Navy which ordered a number of torpedo boats and other vessels. [9] Crichton's company bankrupted in 1913, after which local businessmen Ernst and Magnus Dahlström founded Ab Crichton to continue shipbuilding. As all the Finnish shipbuilders, Ab Crichton suffered of low order intake at the early 1920s; it merged with its competitor and neighbour Ab Vulcan in 1924. The new company name became Ab Crichton-Vulcan Oy and its manager became Allan Staffans. [10] It got large orders from the Finnish Navy, most significant ones being coastal defence ships Väinämöinen and Ilmarinen. [11] By time Crichton-Vulcan grew the biggest shipbuilding company of Finland. The major owner became Helsinki-based Kone- ja Siltarakennus which also owned the Hietalahti shipyard. In 1935 Kone- ja Siltarakennus was taken over by Karelian iron mill Wärtsilä which was led by energetic Wilhelm Wahlforss. [12] Most of the ships produced by Wärtsilä Crichton-Vulcan were exported to Soviet Union but the importance of western market increased by time. The historical name Crichton-Vulcan was replaced by Wärtsilä Turku Shipyard in 1966. [13]

Moving to Perno

The old yard area at river Aura was surrounded by the growing city and when Tankmar Horn became manager of Wärtsilä in the early 1970s, he initiated building a completely new yard out of the urban area. Construction of Perno yard began in 1975 and operations were gradually moved from river Aura to the new premises. [13] Wärtsilä's reputation as cruise ship builder grew and the proportion of freight ships decreased gradually. In 1987 Wärtsilä put together its shipbuilding operations with Valmet creating Wärtsilä Marine. Due to collapse of Soviet exports, errors in price calculations and other reasons, Wärtsilä Marine bankrupted in October 1989. [14]

Foundation and Norwegian ownership

The company was founded as Masa-Yards Turku New Shipyard in November 1989 to continue operations of the previously bankrupted Wärtsilä Marine. The founders were Helsinki shipyard manager Martin Saarikangas, state of Finland and companies of which ships were laying unfinished at Wärtsilä Marine yards. Both the state and the shipowners wanted to sell the shares as soon as the operations were restarted and subsequently the company was taken over by Norwegian Kværner in 1990. [15] By 2002 the major owner of Kværner became another Norwegian company Aker which already owned the Finnish Rauma shipyard. In 2004 the shipbuilding activities were put under the same organisation Aker Yards. In 2008 Korean STX Corporation took over Aker Yards.

STX Finland

The Korean owner renamed the European organisation STX Europe and its Finnish branch became STX Finland. Perno yard was specialised on large cruise ships and cruise ferries with a high degree of processing. Other branches were shipyards in Rauma and Helsinki and naval engineering company Aker Arctic. [16]

STX fell into a financial crisis and at the end of 2012 asked for financial support from the Finnish government in order to receive a large cruise ship order from RCCL. The government rejected this, because the overall project financing was not on a plausible basis. STX decided to build the ship at its French shipyard in Saint-Nazaire, where the government was more generous. The loss of such a valuable order in a difficult economic situation made the future of Finnish shipbuilding uncertain. The Finnish government started a secret operation to find more stable operators for the shipyards in order to save the industry in the country. The Rauma shipyard was closed in 2013 and the ground was sold to town of Rauma; the yard is now operated by Rauma Marine Constructions. The sole owner of Helsinki shipyard became Russian USC, which earlier owned half of it. In 2014 the new operator for Turku yard became Meyer Werft under name Meyer Turku. [16] At the beginning the state was the joint owner until Meyer Werft bought the rest of the shares.

List of ships built or on order

Ship nameClientYearType Gross tonnage Yard number IMO number StatusNotesImageRef
Mein Schiff 4 TUI Cruises 2015 Cruise ship 99,526  GT 1384 9678408 In service "Mein Schiff 4" Kiel.JPG [17]
Mein Schiff 5 TUI Cruises2016Cruise ship98,785  GT 1389 9753193 In service Mein Schiff 5 leaving Kiel I (cropped).jpg [18] [19]
Megastar Tallink 2017 Cruiseferry 49,134  GT 1391 9773064 In service Megastar departing Tallinn 1 February 2017.jpg [20]
Mein Schiff 6 TUI Cruises2017Cruise ship98,811  GT 1390 9753208 In service Mallorca Palma seaport asv2023-04 img1.jpg [18]
Mein Schiff 1 TUI Cruises2018Cruise ship111,500  GT 1392 9783564 In service Mein Schiff 1 Kiel II.jpg [21] [22]
Mein Schiff 2 TUI Cruises2019Cruise ship111,500  GT 1393 9783576 In service Mein Schiff 2 entering Kiel V.jpg [21] [22]
Costa Smeralda Costa Crociere 2019Cruise ship185,010  GT 1394 9781889 In service Excellence-class Costa Smeralda Storebaelt IV (cropped).jpg [23]
Mardi Gras Carnival Cruise Lines 2020Cruise ship181,808  GT 1396 9837444 In service Excellence-class Mardi Gras (2020 ship) in September 2020.jpg [24] [25] [26]
Costa Toscana Costa Crociere2021Cruise ship183,900  GT 1395 9781891 In service Excellence-class Costa Toscana (ship) in September 2021.jpg [23] [27]
Carnival Celebration Carnival Cruise Lines2022Cruise ship183,900  GT 1397 9837456 In service Excellence-class Carnival Celebration no Funchal (52578168754) (cropped).jpg [25]
Icon of the Seas Royal Caribbean International 2023Cruise ship248,663  GT 1400 9829930 In service Icon-class Icon of the Seas.jpg [28]
Mein Schiff 7 TUI Cruises2024Cruise ship111,500  GT 1404 9851189 In service [29]
Star of the Seas Royal Caribbean International2025 (planned)Cruise ship250,800  GT 14019829942Under construction Icon-class [30]
Finnish Border Guard 2025 (planned) [31] Offshore patrol vessel 4772041Under construction [32] Letter of intent for two vessels signed on 16 August 2021. [33] [33]
Royal Caribbean International2026 (planned)Cruise ship250,800  GT 14029888560Under construction Icon-class [34]
Finnish Border Guard2026 (planned) [31] Offshore patrol vessel4772053Ordered [33]

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