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EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
Risto Valkeapää
editorial
seatec 1/2014
EUROPEAN UNION MARINE CLUSTER
– MAKING OF
European ship-building has a long history. One of the most important
shipyards has been the Papenburg yard in Germany. The Meyer Werft
shipyard was founded already in 1795. Turku and Helsinki in Finland have
been known for their fine cruise vessels and good customer relationship
with Royal Caribbean Cruise Line. Nowadays, Meyer Werft makes excellent deliveries to this company led by Mr. Richard Fain.
Cruise business is the core of the very finest marine business. There
is big money involved. Year after year, people want to see the Caribbean
Islands. We all want to find something special to our life.
EDITORIAL COORDINATOR
Liisa Hyvönen
As we all know, the yard business in Turku, Rauma and Helsinki
yards has had difficult times in recent years. But we Finns, also, have a
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Riitta Yli-Öyrä
history, especially in cruise ship building. And what is the most important thing, we have a fully functional marine cluster in place. There is a
group of companies who have references of large vessel projects and
CONTRIBUTORS
Sami J. Anteroinen
Merja Kihl
Ari Mononen
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Meyer Werft / Hero Lang
also conversions. These companies have been active also in the Meyer
Werft cruise projects.
Here’s a good question: what if it was possible to create a European Marine Cluster to connect European Marine know-how together
in this hard, competitive, global marine business world. I am thinking
about European Union Northern Europe industry strategies.
When we think about the future of the ship-building in Europe,
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I can see the co-operation of Finnish marine cluster and German shipyards as the most important link in the shipyard business. When we
think about the German-Finnish link, the key issue is the good relationship between the Turku shipyard and TUI Cruises, specifically Mr. Richard
Vogel, the CEO of the company.
We are pleased to float out this superb cruise ship according to the
schedule, said Mr. Jari Anttila, Deputy CEO of STX Finland. The vessel
was Mein Schiff 3, the location Turku and date 8th November 2013.
Those were the good news.
When conducting good business, there is, in the centre, always a
human being, like both Richards and Jari, who take the responsibility of
decisions and also production. That is why it is important to remember
and connect together these people who are a part of the recent history of the industry.
I will not be in Miami this year. I will retire at the end of February.
This is my last magazine.
But I can foresee already in March the nice stand of Meyer Werft in
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the Miami Convention Center, near by the doors through which people
are coming into the exhibition hall. The stand is modest but the position
in the hall is the best possible.
That is the place where Northern Europe Marine Cluster people
could meet.
RISTO VALKEAPÄÄ
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF