We create ships with purpose, where every design choice protects the waters we all cherish.
RMC’s 300+ maritime professionals form our operational core, focusing on design innovation, project management, and specialized shipbuilding. Our expertise spans the entire shipbuilding chain: from concept to detailed design, steel production to outfitting. And all this takes place on a single site, which makes us a unique player in the industry.
Continuous development
Through comprehensive skills mapping, we have identified the stages of the shipbuilding process where our expertise has the greatest impact. This strategic approach to skills development enables us to achieve excellent results while maintaining a flexible and efficient organization.
This focus on efficiency brings concrete benefits to our customers. These benefits are reflected, for example, in our ability to deliver advanced icebreakers within 36 months of signing a contract. This is the leading delivery time in the industry, giving our customers faster access to vessels that are critical to their operations.
Our commitment to innovation also extends to environmental technologies. One example of this is our collaboration with Viking Line, Åbo Akademi University, and Kempower in the Decatrip project. This pioneering project created one of the world’s first green shipping corridors between Turku and Stockholm. RMC’s role in the project was to investigate how ships already in service could be made more environmentally friendly.
Cooperating Skills
Our networked approach is based on a fundamental principle: the best ships are built in collaboration with the best experts in each part of the project. Instead of trying to concentrate all expertise in-house, we form partnerships with the best experts in their respective fields, who bring their cutting-edge expertise to the process.
This operating model allows us to remain agile and leverage extensive resources as needed. Our expertise emphasizes collaboration skills. Our core team of over 300 experts specializes in integrating the diverse contributions of dozens of partner companies and ensuring that all partners work harmoniously in line with the customer’s vision.
The success of this approach is reflected in our numerous award-winning vessels, which consistently exceed performance expectations.
Design
Our design process begins with a thorough understanding of the customer’s vision and the specific challenges of each vessel’s operating environment. Whether it’s Arctic conditions, where we have world-leading expertise, or the development of vessels for challenging open sea routes, we leverage our accumulated experience.
A good example of cumulative competence development is the simulation technologies we use: we developed them significantly during the Aurora Botnia project and now utilize them in the design of all new vessels. With these technologies, we carefully test and refine vessel concepts before construction begins.
Project Management
Our project management expertise transforms concepts into finished ships by coordinating hundreds of interrelated activities. Thanks to our integrated facilities located in the Rauma Seaside Industry Park, we can carry out the entire shipbuilding process in one place, from steel pre-processing, cutting and panel manufacturing to final outfitting at the largest dry dock in the Baltic Sea region, and finishing the ships at our outfitting quays. This centralization of all required activities eliminates the logistical challenges and quality risks associated with decentralized construction.
This comprehensive approach, combined with our specialized project management tools and methods, has been the cornerstone of our operating model since our inception. It ensures efficient progress even on the most complex projects and guarantees that vessels, whether car and passenger ferries, icebreakers or other specialized vessels, meet strict requirements on time and within budget.
We don’t just build ships, we are shipbuilders.
Shipbuilding Excellence
We don’t just build ships, we are shipbuilders. Our skilled production teams implement plans at every stage of construction. From steel experts who use steel cutting and panel lines to system integration experts who ensure the flawless interoperability of mechanical, electrical, and digital components, we have professionals with decades of experience at our disposal.
These dedicated professionals pay attention to even the smallest details, whether it’s a Clean Design-certified passenger ship, an ice-class vessel for the harshest Arctic conditions, or an advanced naval vessel for defense applications.
Many members of our team have gained experience at previous shipyards in Rauma, which have built a total of nearly 40 commercial vessels since 1990. This legacy of expertise has been preserved and passed on to new generations, ensuring the continuity of Finland’s renowned shipbuilding tradition.
Training
As the final dimension of our comprehensive approach, we recognize that our vessels are ultimately only as good as the crews that operate them. Since the 1990s, we have maintained strategic partnerships with local maritime educational institutions, such as the Rauma Maritime School and Satakunta University of Applied Sciences (SAMK).
With the help of our training partners, we can ensure that the operators of the vessels we build are able to use our technologically advanced and modern vessels as soon as they are completed. This way, the most advanced features of the best ships in the world deliver maximum benefits and value for all parties as soon as they leave our shipyard.
In practice, these cooperation projects result in, for example, ship-specific simulators, such as the simulator developed for Aurora Botnia, which allows crews to train in realistic virtual environments even before the ship is delivered. The partnerships also extend to research, such as the LaivaDigiLab and AlusAkku research projects, which promote both safety and technological innovation. Bridging the gap between construction and operation adds value to the entire life cycle of ships.