Photo: Meyer Werft
Finnish Marine Industries cluster companies have had long-standing cooperation with Meyer Werft’s shipyard in Papenburg in Germany.
F
inland is known as a country full of
Finnish subcontractor companies are more
ternational shipping line and Meyer Werft
innovative ship designers and hi-tech
than ready to compete in the internation-
shipbuilders. The history of cooperation
shipbuilding companies. The same attrib-
al shipbuilding markets. Here are a few
between the companies dates back to the
utes apply to the Marine Industries clus-
success stories.
1990s.
CABIN DOORS
large-scale order of cabin doors for the
unrivalled know-how on the intricacies
FOR CRUISE SHIPS
American cruise liner ’Quantum of the
of modern-day ship assembly. They have
Based in the coastal town of Salo in south-
Seas’ currently being built at Meyer Werft’s
participated in the production of such
western Finland, the door manufacturing
shipyard in Papenburg in Germany,” Com-
complex vessels as polar research vessels,
company Antti-Teollisuus Oy has for a long
mercial Director Markko Takkinen from
ice-breakers, and oil-drilling platforms –
period of time been a subcontracting man-
Antti-Teollisuus Oy rejoices.
among other things.
ufacturer of cabin doors for such major co-
Designed to carry 4 000 passengers,
operative partners as Royal Caribbean In-
the ’Quantum of the Seas’ will be complet-
”Just a while ago, we received a
ter subcontractors.
Many of those companies possess
With this kind of experience, the
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