As Oasis 3 is being built at St. Nazaire in France, it’s not all French you here around the shipyard.
Finnish companies have shown up in numbers to help construct this behemoth – which is no wonder,
given the fact that the Turku shipyard in Finland built the first two Oasis class ships.
B
ut, in order to get the dialogue going
Ulla Lainio, Leading Consultant for
panies who were involved in building Oasis
with the French shipyard, another
Finpro, says that as the Finns travelled to
1 and 2, to participate in the making of
coordinator – of sorts – was needed to
St. Nazaire to talk with the management
the third vessel, too.
serve as a spokesperson for the Finnish
of the shipyard for the first time, it was
According to Lainio, the situation
marine industry. The state-owned Finpro
obvious from the very beginning that the
of the St. Nazaire shipyard is similar to
took on the challenge, promptly opening
French were interested in collaboration.
that of Turku in the sense that they need
a corporate office in France to support the
The leadership at St. Nazaire sent a strong
a strong subcontractor network as well.
dealings with the St. Nazaire shipyard.
signal that they wanted those Finnish com-
So far, almost 30 Finnish companies have
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