The latest addition to the Tallink & Silja Line's fleet was floated out at the Rauma Marine Constructions shipyard on 12 August.

The Estonian President Kersti Kaljulaid served as the ship's godmother.

Once fitted out, the gas-run newbuild will join Megastar in serving the Helsinki-Tallinn route from mid-2022.

The 212 m-long and 30.6 m-wide MyStar will offer room for 3,000 passengers and 3,190 lane metres of cargo capacity.

"Today, as we come together in Rauma shipyard to celebrate another important milestone in the construction of our newest vessel MyStar – we are happy and grateful that, despite the hard and unpredictable global pandemic health crisis and lingering travel restrictions, we have been able, together with our good cooperation partners, to keep up the good progress with MyStar strategic project," Paavo Nõgene, Tallink Grupp's CEO, commented.

He furthered, "I am happy that today, as we will gather in Rauma for the first time in person since the start of the pandemic, to mark this important milestone not only for Tallink Grupp's MyStar project - we are also celebrating a more viable, sustainable and eco-friendly future for the entire shipping industry, and a cleaner, better living environment for the whole of Baltic Sea region and its people."

Photo: Rauma Marine Constructions