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Wärtsilä Marine Wärtsilä Marine ( fi, Wärtsilä Meriteollisuus; sv, Wärtsilä Marinindustri) was a Finnish shipbuilding company. The company was created in 1987 in order to improve shipbuilding productivity by combining the Wärtsilä and Valmet yards und ...

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Turku Turku ( ; ; sv, Åbo, ) is a city and former capital on the southwest coast of Finland at the mouth of the Aura River, in the region of Finland Proper (''Varsinais-Suomi'') and the former Turku and Pori Province (''Turun ja Porin lääni''; ...

Finland Finland ( fi, Suomi ; sv, Finland ), officially the Republic of Finland (; ), is a Nordic country in Northern Europe. It shares land borders with Sweden to the northwest, Norway to the north, and Russia to the east, with the Gulf of Bo ...

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Naantali Naantali (; sv, Nådendal) is a town in southwestern Finland, and, as a resort town during the summer, an important tourist centre of the country. The municipality has a population of (), and is located in the region of Southwest Finland, west ...

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CEO A chief executive officer (CEO), also known as a central executive officer (CEO), chief administrator officer (CAO) or just chief executive (CE), is one of a number of corporate executives charged with the management of an organization especiall ...

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Luonnonmaa Luonnonmaa is an island in the city of Naantali, in south-western Finland. It forms most of the city's area, but only a fraction of its population as it is rather sparsely populated. It previously belonged to the rural municipality of Naantali ('' ...

island,

. The company has focused on repairing of ships and boats. Turku Repair Yard is a part of

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n BLRT Grupp.

Premises

The company's premises are situated in Naantali, Finland. The

dry dock A dry dock (sometimes drydock or dry-dock) is a narrow basin or vessel that can be flooded to allow a load to be floated in, then drained to allow that load to come to rest on a dry platform. Dry docks are used for the construction, maintenance, ...

is long, wide and deep. The company has also a long and wide

floating dock Floating may refer to: * a type of dental work performed on horse teeth * use of an isolation tank * the guitar-playing technique where chords are sustained rather than scratched * ''Floating'' (play), by Hugh Hughes * Floating (psychological phe ...

with 4000-tonne capacity and quay which is long. The maximum

crane Crane or cranes may refer to: Common meanings * Crane (bird), a large, long-necked bird * Crane (machine), industrial machinery for lifting ** Crane (rail), a crane suited for use on railroads People and fictional characters * Crane (surname) ...

capacity is 150 tonnes.

History

The company origins date back to Turku shipbuilding company

Crichton-Vulcan Crichton-Vulcan is an abandoned shipyard in Turku, Finland, that once formed the cornerstone of the Finnish shipbuilding industry. The shipyard is best known for the World War II coastal defence ships and submarines it produced. Shipbui ...

and its predecessors. Ships were traditionally hoisted up by using slipways. In 1933, in the middle of the Great Depression, the city of

started building a large dry dock next to

Korppolaismäki Korppolaismäki (Finnish; ''Korpolaisbacken'' in Swedish) is a district of the city of Turku, in Finland. It is located to the south of the city centre, on the eastern side of the mouth of the river Aura. The district shares the new luxurious re ...

with employment subsidies. The quarry work began in 1934 and the new facility opened in August 1937. The long, wide and deep dock was large enough for all ships which sailed in the Finnish waters back then. The dock was given to be operated by Crichton-Vulcan and the first docking took place in February 1939.Knorring: ''Suuri nousu.'' pp. 107–114.

Wärtsilä Wärtsilä Oyj Abp (), trading internationally as Wärtsilä Corporation, is a Finnish company which manufactures and services power sources and other equipment in the marine and energy markets. The core products of Wärtsilä include technol ...

took over Crichton-Vulcan at the end of the 1930s and in the 1960s the yard was renamed Wärtsilä Turku Shipyard. In the 1970s Wärtsilä built an entirely new yard in Perno. The Wärtsilä shipyards in Turku were reorganised in 1984. New ships were now built only at Perno yard and the old yard by the Aura River focused entirely on ship repairs.Grönros et al.: ''Konepaja- ja telakkateollisuuden historiaa.'' pp. 6–20. Following the bankruptcy of

in 1989, a new company, Turku Repair Yard Ltd, was established the same year to continue ship repair operations. In 2003 the company left the premises at the Aura River and concentrated its operations in Naantali. The history of the Naantali premises dates back to 1956, when Rainer Sjöström founded shipping and shipbuilding subcontractor Navire Oy. In 1972 the company built in Luonnonmaa island a dry dockKnorring: ''Crichton-Vulcanista Turun telakkaan.'' pp. 126–135. for hull building. Navire was split up in 1981 due to financial difficulties. The company was taken over by

n BLRT Grupp in 2007. In 2017 the company announced seeking to develop

ship breaking Ship-breaking (also known as ship recycling, ship demolition, ship dismantling, or ship cracking) is a type of ship disposal involving the breaking up of ships for either a source of parts Part, parts or PART may refer to: People *Armi P� ...

as a new line of business.

Sources

* * {{cite book, last1=von Knorring, first1=Nils, title=Aurajoen veistämöt ja telakat, trans-title=Boat- and Shipyards along River Aura, year=1995, publisher=

Schildts Förlags Ab Schildts Förlags Ab was a Swedish-language book publisher in Finland. The publisher published textbooks as well as fiction and non-fiction. The head office was in Helsinki and there was a branch located in Vaasa. The publisher was owned by Sve ...

, location=Espoo, Finland, language=Finnish, isbn=951-50-0735-6

References

Finnish companies established in 1989 Manufacturing companies of Finland