The new Mein Schiff 7 has been officially delivered to TUI Cruises today at the Meyer Turku shipyard in Finland.
The ship, with a capacity for 2,894 passengers, is the first built by the shipyard with methanol capacity, according to Meyer Turku.
At the official signing ceremony, the shipyard was represented by CEO Tim Meyer and project manager Tom Degerman, while TUI Cruises was represented by CEO Wybcke Meier and CFO Frank Kuhlmann.
The Mein Schiff 7 is the seventh ship in the Mein Schiff series built by the shipyard, Meyer Turku pointed out.
“The symbolic start of production of the Mein Schiff 7, the steel-cutting ceremony, took place at our shipyard on June 14, 2022,” said Tim Meyer, CEO of Meyer Turku.
“We are very proud to have delivered the Mein Schiff 7 to TUI today, less than two years later. This has been made possible thanks to our long and close collaboration“.
The Mein Schiff 7 is also the first vessel in the Mein Schiff fleet to run exclusively on low-emission marine diesel (with a maximum sulfur content of 0.1%).
The 111,500-ton vessel has a shore connection and is equipped with catalytic converters, the shipyard reported.
Furthermore, the Mein Schiff 7 is built so that it can also run on methanol, which, with the environmentally friendly methanol of the future, will make the ship's propulsion power virtually CO2 neutral.
“Receiving this ship is a special moment for us. Ten years ago, we acquired our first Blu Motion class ship here in Turku, and by 2019 we had built a total of six ships,” said Wybcke Meier, CEO of TUI Cruises.
“We would like to thank the Meyer Turku shipyard for their excellent cooperation and the development of our wellness fleet. We are now sailing on the Mein Schiff 7 towards Kiel, where we will welcome our first guests on board on June 12,” he added.
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