The traditional steel-cutting ceremony marked the start of more than two years of construction and outfitting work, involving thousands of professionals across various disciplines. Upon delivery, the vessel – whose name will be announced at a later date – will assume a key role in Royal Caribbean Group’ s fleet as part of the Icon class, designed to enable a completely new type of holiday experience.
“ Icon 5 is once again proof of Meyer Turku’ s unique capability to design and build the cruise ships of the future. In cooperation with our partner Royal Caribbean and the entire maritime industry network, we learn more from each Icon vessel and, as the series progresses, are able to build ships with increasing efficiency and quality. The EUR 150 million investment programme launched by our company further strengthens the yard’ s capabilities to develop its operations. Each Icon vessel is valued at approximately EUR 2 billion, of
Meyer Turku Project Manager Noora Maunila and Royal Caribbean Project Manager Janne Auvinen initiate production of Icon 5.
which 70 per cent remains in Finland due DELIVERY SCHEDULED FOR to the high level of domestic content. In SUMMER 2028 addition, each vessel of this size generates 13,000 person-years of employment uled for summer 2028.
The planned delivery of Icon 5 is sched-
in Finland,” says Casimir Lindholm, CEO Meyer Turku is currently also constructing the third and fourth vessels of Meyer Turku. in
Meyer Turku and Royal Caribbean project teams at the production start of Icon 5.
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