Deltamarin to design
a large hospital ship
Finnish maritime company Deltamarin
signed a contract with Tianjin Xingang
Shipyard for the design of the world’s largest civilian hospital ship.
”We have a lot of experience of various types of ship projects, but this is the
Photos: copyright Mercy Ships
I
n February 2014, the Turku-based
first hospital ship project for us,” notes Mr.
Jarmo Valtonen, Director of Deltamarin’s
Marine business.
Earlier, Deltamarin developed the
concept design of the vessel for Mercy
Ships together with Stena RoRo, who will
manage the actual construction of the
hospital ship. The delivery of the ship is
planned for July 2017.
CONTRACT INCLUDES
TECHNICAL DESIGN
Africa Mercy
Mr. Valtonen mentions that the new pro-
tually replace ’Africa Mercy’, although they
ject is quite unique. In all, there are less
may at first be jointly operated for a period
than ten civilian hospital ships in use
of time.
around the world.
”Our design team consists of a total
of approximately 30 designers.”
According to Mr. Valtonen, the
”The basic design for the ship is
design contract covers all the technical
Currently, Mercy Ships is utilising an
expected to be completed by the