STX Europe

STX Europe was a European shipbuilding group created when the South Korean STX Business Group took control of the Norwegian Aker Yards group and renamed it on 3 November 2008. Aker Yards had been formed in 2004 from the shipbuilding activities of Aker and Kvaerner, and in 2006 it took in the former Chantiers de l'Atlantique yards at Saint-Nazaire and Lorient. Headquartered in Oslo, the group ran 15 shipyards in Brazil, Finland, France, Norway, Romania and Vietnam, organised in three business areas: cruise and ferries, offshore and specialised vessels, and other operations. Its large cruise ships came mainly from the Finnish yard at Turku and the French yard at Saint-Nazaire, and the Turku yard built the Oasis of the Seas. In 2012 the offshore yards were sold to Fincantieri and became Vard, the Finnish yard was sold in September 2014 to Meyer Werft and the Finnish state and continued as Meyer Turku, and the French yard took back the name Chantiers de l'Atlantique in 2017. This make covers vessels built under the STX Europe name; ships of the French yard are filed under Chantiers de l'Atlantique.