The brand-new ferry of the Australian TT-Line Company has left her shipbuilders at Rauma Marine Constructions (RMC) and is sailing towards her home port in Devonport.

Once in the Southern Hemisphere, Spirit of Tasmania V will join her sister ship Spirit of Tasmania IV on the Devonport-Geelong crossing (where the duo will replace another Finnish pair built in the 1990s).

Each of the 212 metre-long and 31 m-wide, 48,000 gross tonnage ferries offers room for 1,800 passengers (across 301 cabins) and 3,700 lane metres for cargo.

"RMC has during the ten-year history of the company built five car and passenger ferries, the two Spirit of Tasmania ro-pax vessels being the most recent ones. We specialise in building vessels demanding navigation conditions and the four multi-purpose corvettes [for the Finnish Navy] of the ongoing Squadron 2020 project are also designed for challenging seas. There could not be better testimony to the capabilities of our personnel to successfully complete different types of total deliveries in good cooperation with demanding partners," Mika Nieminen, CEO of RMC, commented.

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