STX Finland
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- Cruise ships
- Ferries
- Special ships Template: Infobox Company / Maintenance / products
The STX Finland, formerly Aker Yards Oy, is a company that operates in Finland shipyards at three sites in Helsinki, Turku and Rauma. The company is a subsidiary of STX Europe ASA, which in turn belongs to the STX Corporation, one of the largest conglomerates in South Korea. STX Finland Cruise Oy at three sites in Turku, Helsinki and Rauma together about 3,800 employees. The shipyard in Turku, with an area of 144 hectares one of the largest in Europe. Here large cruise ships in the Post-Panamax class are mainly built. The shipyard in Helsinki is mainly specialized in the construction of ferries, in Rauma also multipurpose icebreakers and other special ships, in addition to smaller ferries and cruise ships constructed.
Today's STX Finland Cruise Oy emerged from a fusion of several yards. Since the 1960s, Wärtsilä built ships at the Helsinki and Turku locations. In the 1980s, a merger took place with the shipbuilding division of the formerly state-owned Valmet Group, from which the Wärtsilä Marine emerged. After a bankruptcy of Wärtsilä Marine in 1989, the company was founded Masa Yards. Initially the focus was previously begun to complete naval construction, but then all the activities of the former Wärtsilä's shipyards were taken. The mid-1990s Masa Yards was then bought by the Norwegian Kvaerner Group and renamed Kvaerner Masa Yards. In addition, was created in 1991 in Rauma by the merger of two shipyards, the Finn yards, which were bought by the Norwegian group Aker and also changed its name to Aker Yards Finland. In 2000, Aker succeeded to take over its competitor Kværner, and Aker Kværner it was the company. From 2002 started to combine the shipbuilding activities of the two groups. 2004 then was the Aker Yard ASA, and January 1, 2005, the shipbuilding operations in Finland were brought together under one roof. Through a fusion of Kværner Masa Yards with Aker Yards Finn was the new Aker Yards Oy Finn. In June 2006 there was a further change of name to Aker Yards Oy. In 2008, the then South Korean company STX took over a majority stake in Aker Yards. Then the STX Finland Cruise Oy was from the Finnish branch.