The Aura , named after a small Finnish town , is a Finnish heavy lift carrier without its own loading cranes and with a multi-purpose deck that also allows container loading or loading using the RoRo method .
The ship delivered by the Polish shipyard Remontowa in Gdańsk in 2008 is used to transport steel structures , ship segments or deck superstructures (e.g. in traffic between the Baltic Sea shipyards), oversized cargo such as wind turbines and other offshore equipment , but also traditional Finnish export items such as Lumber and granite blocks . It is used in the Baltic Sea, North Sea and around the British Isles.
With additional equipment, the Aura can also be used as a cable layer . At times it could also be equipped with an additional residential module for 36 additional workers, which was self-sufficient except for the power supply, and which could easily be attached and removed by a crane. Additional diesel generators with fuel tanks can be installed on deck.
Sister ship Meri
The insignificantly larger heavy goods transporter Meri (2012) - initially announced as Aura II - was built at STX Finland in Turku as a Double Acting Ship that can drive normally forwards in thin ice, but can also be used in dense ice reversing without the assistance of an icebreaker . This has the advantage that the bow and stern are each hydrodynamically specific in order to avoid the disadvantages of the icebreaker shape during normal travel (reduced speed and pitching of the ship around the transverse axis ). The Meri is equipped with the Finnish-Swedish ice class 1A for the Arctic , has a load capacity of 5000 tons and can also be used to fight oil spills. It is powered by three Wärtsilä diesel engines with 1026 kW each, which also work with biofuel.
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