Deltamarin announced that it has signed contracts with Xiamen Shipbuilding Industry (XSI), located in southeast China, for engineering and construction support services for the Viking Line LNG-fuelled ro-pax vessel newbuilding.
The contracts cover basic and detail design, as well as comprehensive project management support and supervision services to the shipyard during vessel construction. Deltamarin has developed the new vessel concept together with Viking Line, and delivered assistance in the tender and contract phases for the owner.
Nina Savijoki, Deltamarin’s sales manager, commented that the cooperation enabled the creation of a concept that is extremely energy efficient in relation to cargo capacity.
As explained, special focus in the concept development was put on hull form development, weight control, energy efficiency (including waste heat recovery) and improvement of the General Arrangement. The new concept is 10% more energy efficient than Viking Grace, the company’s most efficient ship.
The engineering and pre-construction project management support will be carried out mainly at Deltamarin’s offices in Finland over an estimated period of 12 months. The supervision and other construction support services will be carried out until planned delivery of the vessel in 2020.
The new ro-pax vessel for Viking Line will have a passenger capacity of 2,800 people, and the length of its cargo lanes will be 1,500 metres. In addition to running on liquefied natural gas (LNG), the vessel will have two 24 m-high rotor sails installed. She will serve the Finland – Sweden route, connecting Turku, Åland Islands, and Stockholm as part of the European Union’s Motorways of the Seas project.
