Meyer Turku Delivers First Ship Under New Owners

Meyer Turku handed over Mein Schiff 4 to TUI Cruises on Friday May 8, 2015, marking the first delivery from Turku Shipyard under Meyers’ ownership. The Meyer family, operators of the shipbuilding company Meyer Werft in Germany, became the 100 percent owner of Meyer Turku Oy just two days earlier on May 6.

 

Mein Schiff 4 will be named in Kiel on June 5, before sailing on her maiden voyage to the Baltic States on June 6, 2015.

 

The Mein Schiff 4 building project entered production at Meyer Turku two years ago. The ship’s keel was laid in the dry dock February 2014, then placed in water in October 2014. The ship is 294 meters long and 36 meters wide, with a gross tonnage of 99,500 and a total of 1,253 cabins – 90 percent of these are outside cabins, and 82 percent also have their own balcony.

 

Designed for the German premium-class cruise market, Mein Schiff cruise ships have been constructed using advanced and eco-friendly technologies. According to the builder, these new ships feature energy consumption around 30 percent lower than other cruise ships of the same size. B

y using the combined exhaust after-treatment system consisting of a scrubber and a catalyzer, sulfur emissions are lowered by as much as 99 percent and nitrogen oxide emission are reduced by around 75 percent. 

 

The production of the next evolution in the Mein Schiff series, Mein Schiff 5, began in February 2015, with a keel laying ceremony scheduled for June. On the same day, the production of Mein Schiff 6 will start. By the end of this year, Mein Schiff 5 will be floated out, and she will be delivered to TUI Cruises in the summer of 2016.