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Mols-Linien orders two ferries to Rauma Marine Constructions and Austal
First store clerk of shipbuilding to the new society of Rauma
June 23, 2016
The shipbuilding society Finnish Rauma Marine Constructions (RMC) has obtained from the company of Danish navigation Mol-Linien an order of the value of about 68 million euros for the construction of a ferry of the length of 158 meters. Draft of the first store clerk of adjudicated shipbuilding to the society that is constituted in 2014 in order to operate the ship yard of Rauma previously managed from the STX Finland.
The new ship, that it will have an ability to 400 passengers and a garage of 1.500 linear meters, will be employed on the route that combines the Danish ports of Rønne and Køge. The real construction will be started in the next spring and the ferry will be delivered in June 2018.
"For us - it has emphasized the president and managing director of RMC, Heikki Pöntynen - the consistency of the contract is important and it is for our suppliers. The contract assures full load job to RMC for two years and it offers the possibility to develop the activities to us of shipbuilding to Rauma in the long period. Moreover - it has specified - a meaningful quota the commercial value of the ship will go for the benefit of the Finnish community as taxes and other burdens".
Moreover Mols-Linien has ordered the construction of another ferry to the Australian yard Austal Ships, near which she to the Danish company is already under construction the ferry destined KatExpress 3 also that will at the beginning take it in delivery of the next year. The new store clerk includes an option for the construction of another ship.
The new KatExpress 4, that it will be constructed in the Australian ship yard of Henderson, as the binoculars KatExpress 1, 2 KatExpress and KatExpress 3 will have an ability to beyond thousand passengers and 425 motor vehicles. KatExpress 4 will be delivered to horse between 2018 and 2019.
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