MS Finntide

The Finntide was built at the Chinese shipyard CSC Jinling under the number JLZ07-044 and was launched in 2012. The ship has two loading ramps for cars, can take 470 containers,^[1] is equipped with two eight-cylinder Wärtsilä 8L46F engines with an output of 10,000 kW. The engines drive two controllable-pitch propellers and enable a speed of up to 21 knots. docking and undocking maneuvers are assisted by a maneuvering thrusters. In 2017, the Finntide underwent so-called ship lengthening at the Gdańsk Ship Repair Yard. At the shipyard, after strength and stability calculations were carried out by shipyard engineers, the ship was cut into two parts, a new section was inserted between these parts, and the two were joined using the welding method. As a result of the reconstruction, the ship, previously 188.37 m long, was lengthened by 29.5 m, thus increasing the cargo space by 30% and reducing fuel consumption per cargo unit.^[2] Finntide handles cargo and truck transport most often between ports on the route Uusikaupunki – Turku - Travemünde, Helsinki - Rostock - Aarhus,^[3] also sails from Finland to Poland between the ports of Hanko – Gdynia - Hanko.^[4]