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3 years, 3 million passengers – Viking Glory has become a favourite with both Finns and Swedes
Viking Glory turns three in early March and at the same time will celebrate serving three million passengers. For Finns, Viking Line’s flagship offers modern slow cruise experiences, while Swedish passengers see the vessel as a luxury party boat. …
Mar 4, 2025 / Vessels
Viking Line, Port of Turku and Ports of Stockholm celebrate one year of cooperation to establish a green shipping corridor
Viking Line, Port of Turku and Ports of Stockholm have been working together for a year on a project which aims to establish a green, fossil-free shipping corridor between Stockholm and Turku. The parties have now laid a solid foundation for the …
Feb 6, 2025 / Curious
Finnlines opens a new route from Turku to Rostock
Finnlines Plc will open a new route from Turku to Rostock in southwestern Baltic Sea, Germany, on August 25, 2024. With this new route, new opportunities will arise for Finnish companies’ imports and exports. Finnlines is one of the leading freight …
Aug 29, 2024 / Curious
Auramarine Wins Methanol Fuel Supply System Order For Pioneering Mein Schiff 7 Cruise Vessel
Auramarine Ltd, the leading fuel supply systems pioneer for the marine, process and power industries, has announced that it has won an order from Meyer Turku shipyard for a methanol fuel supply system and associated equipment for the luxury Mein …
Jun 7, 2024 / Vessels
Viking Line to create green corridor together with Ports of Stockholm and the Port of Turku
Viking Line, Ports of Stockholm and the Port of Turku signed a Memorandum of Understanding, February 6, 2024, to create a green maritime corridor between Turku and Stockholm. The goal is for the corridor to be 100% carbon-neutral by 2035. The …
Feb 7, 2024 / Curious
Viking Line’s vessels have now been part of Turku for 50 years – to celebrate, the company is offering a city and sea holiday in one package
Viking Line has linked Turku with Stockholm since 1973. Over the decades, the popularity of the route has been boosted by shopping bargains, good economic times and bad, and ever more beautiful vessels. For this anniversary year, Viking Line is …
Jul 3, 2023 / Curious
ABB to power two new multi-purpose patrol vessels for Finnish Border Guard
ABB has been awarded a contract by Finnish shipbuilder Meyer Turku to provide an integrated power and propulsion system for two new multi-purpose patrol vessels of the Finnish Border Guard. The package will consist of two Azipod® propulsion units and …
Apr 6, 2023 / Curious
Tallink Grupp’s vessel Baltic Princess head to Naantali, Finland for regular dry-docking
Tallink Grupp’s Turku-Kapellskär route vessel Baltic Princess will go on dry-dock in Naantali, Finland on Turku Repair Dockyard during 6.-19.3.2023. During the dockings many technical upgrades and underwater hull works will be carried out, including …
Mar 6, 2023 / Vessels
Viking Grace becomes ever more climate smart – waste put to good use at the dock
The ten-year-old Viking Grace returned to operate between Turku and Stockholm on 12 February as a better and climate-smarter version of itself. During its three-week visit to the dock, new technology to reduce fuel consumption was installed and the …
Feb 13, 2023 / Vessels
Tallink Grupp’s vessels Silja Serenade and Silja Symphony head to Naantali, Finland for regular dry-docking
Tallink Grupp’s Helsinki-Stockholm route vessels Silja Serenade and Silja Symphony will go on dry-dock in Naantali, Finland on Turku Repair Dockyard during January and February. Silja Serenade will be docked on 18.1.-2.2.2023 and Silja Symphony on …
Jan 19, 2023 / Vessels