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Home» News»North Sea Handling to Supply Finnish Navy Corvettes with Weapons and Vehicle Access Equipment
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Artist’s rendering of the Finnish Navy’s new Pohjanmaa class multipurpose corvette. Photo courtesy of Finnish Defence Forces.

North Sea Handling to Supply Finnish Navy Corvettes with Weapons and Vehicle Access Equipment

North Sea Handling AS is through its subsidiary NSH Ships Equipment AS celebrating the contract signing with Rauma Marine Constructions (RMC) shipyard of delivering weapon and vehicle access equipment for the four Pohjanmaa-class corvettes for the Finnish Navy under its Squadron 2020 project.

Xavier Vavasseur 24 Nov 2020

NORTH SEA HANDLING press release

The NSH scope of supply will include a wide range of hatches, bulkhead doors, lifting platform, ramps and helicopter hangar door.

“We are very proud to have been selected as the supplier of this mission critical equipment and to contribute with state-of-the-art equipment to support RMC and the Finnish Defence Forces”.



Roar Roksvåg, General Manager at North Sea Handling

“RMC looks forward to working with North Sea Handling and is confident that the NSH equipment fits well for the Squadron 2020 project and for the Finnish Navy”, says Turkka Jäppinen, Project Manager of Rauma Marine Constructions, Squadron 2020 project.

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About Pohjanmaa-class Corvette

A CGI of the Pohjanmaa-class corvette that will be procured by the Finnish Navy under the Squadron-2020 program (Credit: Finnish MoD)

The Pohjanmaa-class corvettes (Squadron 2020 program) will be constructed in Finland. They will be multi role surface combatants with ice breaking capabilities. The construction contract (worth 647.6 million Euros) was awarded to Finnish shipbuilder Rauma Marine Constructions in September 2019. The construction of the four corvettes will is set to start in 2022 and end in 2025. Full operational status of the entire Pohjanmaa-class with the Finnish Navy is expected to be achieved by 2028.

Read about Pohjanmaa-class corvette more at this link

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Posted by : Xavier Vavasseur
Xavier is based in Paris, France. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Management Information Systems and a Master of Business Administration from Florida Institute of Technology (FIT). Xavier has been covering naval defense topics for nearly a decade.

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