Sweco to design an environmentally friendly car-passenger ferry

Sweco to design an environmentally friendly car-passenger ferry  

Sweco Industry has won an engineering assignment from STX Finland Cruise. The
assignment includes hull and machinery engineering for a car-passenger ferry and
its sister ship for the British shipping company P&O Ferries. The ferries will
be constructed at the STX shipyard in Rauma, Finland

The ferries will be designed to be as environmentally friendly as possible. For
example, there will be set limits for the consumption of fuel in place. This is
made possible by the hydro-dynamically efficiently designed hull.

The ferries will operate on the British P&O Ferries' route between Dover and
Calais. When finished, they will be the largest ferries in the English Channel,
with a length of 210 metres and weight of 49 000 gross tonnes. The ferries can
hold 2'000 passengers.

The scope of work which Sweco is responsible for will employ approximately 40
Sweco specialists at the maximum.

The ferries with the total value of 360 million euro will be delivered in 2010
and 2011.  


For further information please contact:
Erkki Peni, Business Unit Director, Marine, Sweco Industry,
tel. +358 400 533 242, erkki.peni@sweco.fi


Sweco is a provider of international consulting engineering services with
combined expertise in engineering, environmental technology and architecture.
The Group has annual sales of approximately SEK 4.6 billion and 5,500 employees
in ten countries. The company has projects currently underway in some 80
countries worldwide. Sweco is listed on NASDAQ OMX Stockholm AB.

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Financial Instruments Trading Act.