The steel cutting ceremony for the first of two Costa Cruises ships to be powered by liquefied natural gas (LNG) was held today 13.9.2017 at Meyer Turku shipyard, Finland. The ship will sail to the seas in October 2019 with a sister ship following in 2021. (more…)
Meyer Turku shipyard is more than doubling investments from previously published 75 million euros to 185 million euros. The new investments include a new plate cutting line, a new profile cutting line and a new panel line to the steel halls of the shipyard. (more…)
Meyer Turku has delivered to the new Mein Schiff 6 to TUI Cruises during a handover ceremony at the Finnish shipyard. “We are very happy about the delivery of Mein Schiff 6 which was on time and in excellent quality. With this ship we can again deliver the high TUI Cruises standard to our passengers and exceed it with fine tunings and small surprises,” said TUI Cruises CEO Wybcke Meier. (cruiseindustrynews.com)
While TUI Cruises is getting ready to take delivery of Mein Schiff 6 from the Meyer Turku shipyard, the full crew has arrived onboard. Of the 1,030 crew members, 70 percent come from the other TUI ships, the company said in a prepared statement. (cruiseindustrynews.com)
TUI Cruises and Meyer Turku shipyard have jointly designed the New Mein Schiff 1 & 2 to be an evolution on the successful foundation of Mein Schiff 6. (more…)
Royal Caribbean’s next class of cruise ship will be powered by liquefied natural gas (LNG) and introduce the use of fuel cell technology to dramatically reduce greenhouse gas emissions. (cruisecritic.com)
Carnival Corporation & plc signed a memorandum of agreement with leading German and Finnish shipbuilders Meyer Werft and Meyer Turku to deliver three additional next-generation cruise ships that will be fully powered by Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG), the cleanest burning fossil fuel in the world. (more…)
Meyer Turku shipyard has enlarged its investment package with a new steel storage and pre-treatment facility. This is already a third large scale investment announced this year from Meyer Turku, the previous oens being a new Gantry crane and a new modernized Cabin Factory. (cruiseindustrynews.com)
The production of a new generation of Mein Schiff ships started today at Meyer Turku shipyard, Finland, with the steel cutting ceremony. The new Mein Schiff 1, NB-1392, will be around 20 meters longer than the previous Mein Schiff ships and will have space for additional 180 cabins. (more…)
Today, (June 20) ten days ahead of schedule, TUI Cruises took delivery of Mein Schiff 5 from the Meyer Turku shipyard. Wybcke Meier and Frank Kuhlmann, CEO and CFO of TUI Cruises, together with Dr. Jan Meyer, CEO of Meyer Turku Oy shipyard, marked the occasion with invited guests at the handing-over ceremony. (more…)
The Meyer family is building ships since 221 years. Ever since, the family company’s success relied on a long-term approach that aimed to develop the technology, advance the skill-set of employees, and reinvest profits.
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Following old traditions of the shipyard coins were placed under the keel block to bring luck for the ship. Representatives of TUI Cruises, Royal Caribbean Cruise Line, Meyer Turku and the classification society Det Norske Veritas, invited guests, and members of the press joined the event. (marinelink.com)
On Friday 15 January, Meyer Turku Shipyard floated out the first ship being contracted and built totally under the ownership of the Meyer family. (more…)
TUI Cruises GmbH and Meyer Turku Oy signed an agreement for two cruise ships. This order further strengthens the order book of the shipyard, which contains now a high work load until the year 2020. (more…)
On 23 June 2015, the keel of Mein Schiff 5 was laid at Meyer Turku shipyard’s drydock. Before the keel-laying ceremony, the start of production of the sister ship Mein Schiff 6 took place in the shipyard’s construction hall. (more…)
Carnival Corporation & plc said that the two 180,000 gross ton LNG powered ships it had ordered from Meyer Werft in Papenburg will enter service with AIDA Cruises in Germany, while two similar vessels from Meyer Turku would be allocated to a brand later. (cruisebusiness.com)
Carnival Corporation & plc today announced it has signed a multi-billion dollar contract to build four next-generation cruise ships with the largest guest capacity in the world. (more…)
Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. (RCCL), the world’s second largest cruise shipping group, is in talks with Meyer Turku Shipyard about significant new orders, a Finnish media report said. (cruisebusiness.com)
Meyer Werft, the privately owned German shipbuilder, has acquired the remaining 30% of the shares in Meyer Turku Shipyard it does not already own, the Finnish shipbuilder said in a statement. (cruisebusiness.com)
Meyer Werft, the privately owned German shipbuilder that signed a strategic agreement with Carnival Corp & plc, the world’s largest cruise shipping group today, will share the four ships allocated to it between its yards in Papenburg, Germany and Turku, Finland. (cruisebusiness.com)
Meyer Turku Shipyard, the Finnish shipbuilder controlled in the Meyer Werft group that is based in Germany, has started work on the 99,500 gross ton Mein Schiff 5 for Hamburg based TUI Cruises. (cruisebusiness.com)
Meyer Turku Oy, which changed ownership only three weeks earlier, floated out the cruise ship Mein Schiff 4. (cruisebusiness.com)
