On June 14, the christening ceremony of a Container Carrier, ordered by Baltic Container Shipping, took place at Aker Yards shipyard in Rauma. The vessel to be managed by Rederi AB TransAtlantic was christened as TransPaper by Marjatta Härmälä, spouse of Stora Enso s President and CEO Jukka Härmälä. The vessel is the first in a series of three, the contract for which was signed on January 5, 2005. This NB 448 will be delivered in a few weeks, and the sister ships later this year. The contract is worth $189.4m. The container carriers are intended to operate on the Gulf of Bothnia, between Kemi and Oulu in Finland, Gothenburg in Sweden and Lübeck in Germany.
