Meyer Werft, the 100% owner of Turku Shipyard is reportedly in talks to clinch contracts for building largest cruise ships for Royal Caribbean Cruises, the press service of St. Petersburg headquartered Turku Centre said.
As Helsingin Sanomat reports the vessels construction may start in 2020. However, the shipyard officials has neither confirmed nor denied the information.
In 2009 and 2010, two huge cruise ships, the Oasis of the Seas and the Allure of the Seas (of capacity in excess of 6,000 passengers) were built at the Finnish shipyard in Turku.
Meyer Turku Oy is one of the leading European shipbuilding companies owned by Meyer Werft (100%). The shipyard employs 1,350 people and specializes in building cruise ships, car-passenger ferries and special vessels. The subsidiaries of Meyer Turku are Piikkio Works Oy, which is a Cabin Factory in Piikkiö, Shipbuilding Completion Oy, which provides turnkey solutions to public spaces in ships, and ENG'nD Oy, an engineering company offering services for shipbuilding and offshore.
Papenburg, Germany based MEYER WERFT was founded in 1795 and is in its sixth generation of family ownership. The company specializes in the construction of huge, modern and sophisticated cruise ships, as well as car and passenger ferries, RoRo ships and LPG tankers. The company's affiliated unit NEPTUN WERFT GmbH & Co. KG in Rostock, builds river cruise liners and supplements the range of ships. The shipbuilding company has more than 3,000 employees. MEYER WERFT's order book will keep the company busy well into the year 2019.