The Swedish ferry company will acquire NLC Ferry, operating under the Wasaline banner, from Kvarken Link (owned 50/50 by the cities of Umeå and Vaasa).
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.
Eckerö Line's ferry will be retrofitted with a battery pack during her early 2026 dry-dock, an investment that's expected to cut the ship's yearly bunker consumption by around 3.0% (some 500-600 tonnes of fuel).
The Royal Caribbean Group has secured the right to construct vessels at the Finnish shipyard through 2036, confirming the order of Icon 5 plus an option for two other Icon-class cruise ships.
PaxOcean Zhoushan has delivered Martta, the last in the series of three 150 by 27 metres, 1A Ice Class, 1,200-TEU (290 reefer plugs) container ships for the shipping company from the Finnish Piikkiö.
The €2.9-million project, funded by the EU Interreg Central Baltic Programme, will see the development of smart surface vessels equipped with pollution detection sensors.
Stegra, whose green steel plant is under construction in the Swedish Boden, has entrusted the Finnish company with receiving & managing scrap in the Port of Umeå and with steel coil exports through the seaport in Skellefteå.
This autumn, the ferry company will increase its purchases of the bio version of liquefied natural gas (bioLNG) sixfold, from around 600 tonnes last year to 3,800.
