Miami- based cruise ship titan Royal Caribbean Cruises has actually authorized a memorandum of contract with the Meyer Turku shipyard in Finland for 2 LNG-powered cruise liner.

The about 200,000 gross lot cruise liner are anticipated to be provided in 2022 and also 2024. The ships, under the task name “icon”, will certainly additionally utilize gas cells as a tidy and also effective methods for producing electric power.

“With Icon class, we begin the journey to take the smoke out of our smokestacks”, stated Richard Fain, chairman and also ceo of Royal Caribbean Cruises, Ltd.

“Our partnership with RCL has created a number of groundbreaking ships such as Oasis, Celebrity Solstice, Quantum and Mein Schiff,” stated Jan Meyer, CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER ofMeyer Turku Oy “We are grateful that Royal Caribbean engages with us in a new challenging journey to advance the state of maritime technology with a new class of cruise ships. Our common aim is to develop fuel cells to a level that allows their usage in a significant application to power the ship’s hotel functions.”

With the brand-new orders, Meyer Turku has actually protected its order publication till 2024, “substantially beyond Turku yard’s all-time-high work load during Oasis/Allure times in 2007 – 2009,” the shipyard stated in a declaration Tuesday.

Meyer Turku claims the 8 year long perspective develops a chance for the shipyard, had by Meyer Werft of Germany, and also the whole Finnish maritime collection to spend and also establish their abilities with a long-lasting approach focused on progressing innovation. Since present innovation and also policies are not yet prepared for maritime gas cell usage, numerous pilot setups on various other Meyer- constructed RCL ships will certainly act tipping rocks for the gas cell setup on Icon, according to Meyer Turku.

“This historically long and high-load order book enables us to modernize Turku ship yard into a modern data-driven ship factory and grow it to a new level 50% above the all-time-high,” stated Jan Meyer.

Meyer Turku has actually up until now introduced 75 million euros well worth of financial investments in the Turku lawn, which Meyer Werft bought from STX Finland in 2014 with aid from theFinnish Government In 2015, Meyer Werft got the Finnish federal government risk to acquire a 100% possession in the lawn.

More financial investments are coming, as well. Meyer Turku claims along with the equipment and also IT systems of the lawn, the household had business is additionally spending greatly in individuals and also will certainly enhance the variety of workers from around 1,300 in 2014 to 1,800 in the future. The complete work result consisting of the lots of specific subcontractors is approximated to be bigger than 15,000.

“This is a very interesting time for the shipyard’s specialists – as we are recreating the way we work and advancing our product technology. I’m very proud of the level of competence of our Finnish team and we are further strengthening our team with more skilled personnel from many different fields of expertise”, Jan Meyer included.