{"id":479,"date":"2020-05-07T13:17:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-07T12:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mercator.nfdtesting.uk\/propulsion-and-future-fuels-conference\/2020\/05\/07\/wasaline-ferry-on-track-despite-covid-19\/"},"modified":"2026-08-26T21:51:01","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T20:51:01","slug":"wasaline-ferry-on-track-despite-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.motorship.com\/propulsion-and-future-fuels-conference\/news\/vessels-shipyards\/wasaline-ferry-on-track-despite-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Wasaline ferry on track despite COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <em>Aurora Botnia<\/em> is being built at Rauma Marine Constructions and is scheduled for launch in the autumn of this year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are starting to put together the last blocks and the construction of the hull, as well as the fitting of the machine rooms and car decks, is proceeding at a rapid pace,\u201d said Johanna Kaijo, project manager of the newbuilding NB6002.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA total of seven of <em>Aurora Botnia<\/em>\u2019s blocks will be delivered from Gdansk in Poland, of which three arrived at the end of April. We are currently fitting the blocks that were delivered,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<p>Construction of the cabins has also begun and the vessel\u2019s bow gate will be delivered to the shipyard in August, along with other equipment including side doors and a moving car deck. In addition to RMC\u2019s own staff, there are approximately 400 people working on the Wasaline project. The COVID-19 situation has posed additional challenges to the staffing of extra and rotating employees.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe hope that the decisions made by the Finnish government on 4 May regarding the ease of labour movement will help this situation,\u201d said Jyrki Heinimaa, president and chief executive, Rauma Marine Constructions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The construction of Wasaline\u2019s new car and passenger ferry is on schedule, despite the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":480,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-vessels-shipyards"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motorship.com\/propulsion-and-future-fuels-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motorship.com\/propulsion-and-future-fuels-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motorship.com\/propulsion-and-future-fuels-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorship.com\/propulsion-and-future-fuels-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorship.com\/propulsion-and-future-fuels-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=479"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorship.com\/propulsion-and-future-fuels-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":481,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorship.com\/propulsion-and-future-fuels-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479\/revisions\/481"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorship.com\/propulsion-and-future-fuels-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motorship.com\/propulsion-and-future-fuels-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorship.com\/propulsion-and-future-fuels-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorship.com\/propulsion-and-future-fuels-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=479"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorship.com\/propulsion-and-future-fuels-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}