Perno shipyard is a shipyard in Turku, southwest Finland, that specialises in building cruise ships, passenger ferries, special vessels and offshore projects. The yard area is 144 ha and is operated by Meyer Turku Oy[1] with a dry dock 365 m long, 80 m wide and 10 m deep. It has one of the largest bridge crane in the Nordic region with a capacity of 1,200 tonnes and a smaller crane with a capacity of 600 tonnes.[2][3]
History
Construction
Wärtsilä's shipbuilding grew heavily in the 1960s and over time the old yard area on both banks of the Aura river that runs through Turku became too small. When Tankmar Horn was appointed general manager of Wärtsilä in 1971, the idea of a modern "ship factory" started to evolve, inspired by the Swedish Götaverken Arendal yard.[4]
The area selected for the new yard was in Perno, then part of Raisio, some 10 km from the centre of Turku. The area was joined to Turku, and on 8 April 1974 the city council approved a plan to sell 144 ha of land and 34 ha of water area to Wärtsilä for a new shipyard. The work was launched in a ceremony held on 16 May 1974, when president Urho Kekkonen detonated the first explosive charge of the site work. The number of construction workers rose to over 1,000 people.[4]
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References
- Meyer Turku at a glance Meyer Turku, retrieved 2014-11-01^
- Meyer Turku Invests €30 Million in New 1,200-Tonne Bridge Crane retrieved 2025-03-23^
- Laivanrakennus ennen ja nyt vayla.fi, retrieved 2014-11-01