Photo: RMC Sammeli Korhonen

Tallink's newest vessel, MyStar, is being built in Finland at Rauma Marine Constructions, RMC, shipyard. MyStar project is in the core of strong Finnish shipbuilding expertise: RMC, founded in 2014, is one of Europe's leading shipbuilding companies and is fully domestically owned Finnish company. We found out what kind and how big of dock are we talking about.

Rauma's shipbuilding traditions date back to the 16th century. The busiest seafaring in the city port has been during the 19th century’s sailing ship era. That’s when various sailing ships were built at a fast pace in the port.

Modern shipbuilding expertise in Rauma is represented by Rauma Marine Constructions, RMC, which is specialised in ship construction and maintenance, including construction and maintenance of icebreakers, car and passenger ferries, and vessels for use by the armed forces.

Rauma is well suited as a construction site for special vessels. The Rauma shipyard has always built and maintained a considerable amount of Finnish state-owned vessels, such as all multi-purpose breakers and large patrol vessels. All Navy battleships commissioned after 1986 are also manufactured in Rauma.

Photo: Rauma Marine Constructions

Long-term cooperation

Over the years, a total of more than 30 ferries and ro-ro vessels have been completed in Rauma. A total of four Tallink ships have been built in the city and two have been designed in addition to them. Ships built at Rauma shipyard: Romantika, Victoria, Galaxy, Baltic Queen and now MyStar. Ships built in cooperation between Rauma and Helsinki: Star, Baltic Princess. The previous ship, Baltic Queen, was completed in 2009 and is currently operating on the Tallinn-Stockholm route.

MyStar, which is currently under construction at RMC, is the first new construction project to be implemented for Tallink. MyStar is also so far, the largest passenger car ferry, which the company, founded in 2014, has been building at Rauma to this date.

The ship will be 212 meters long and 30.6 meters wide. The ship can accommodate a total of 2,800 passengers and 200 crew members. There is room for 1,900 lane meters for trucks and other vehicles.

Photo: RMC Sammeli Korhonen

LIFTING CAPACITY 450 TONS

RMC's shipyard has a construction capacity of 80,000 GT, which indicates the gross tonnage of the ship. MyStar will have a gross tonnage of about 50,000 GT. For example, Silja Serenade has a gross tonnage of about 58,000 GT and the container ship Ever Given, which was stuck in the Suez Canal, has about 220,000 GT.

The RMC dry dock area is 260 x 85 meters, which is about the size of about two football fields. The pool on the dock is 12 meters deep and, when filled, will hold about 221 million litres of water.

The yard's largest crane is capable of lifting about 150 tons of cargo, which is equivalent to the weight of about 40 elephants. The tallest cranes are over 70 meters high. The total lifting capacity of the yard's cranes is about 450 tons, or about 120 elephants.

RMC employs more than 200 shipbuilding experts, whose solid professionalism is based on centuries of knowledge passed down from one generation to the next. Thus, the expertise of generations will remain and live strong in Rauma. The yard currently employs more than 1,000 persons from the partner network.

Read more about Rauma Marine Constructions' shipyard: www.rmcfinland.fi.

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