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MS Viking XPRS under construction at the Hietalahti shipyard in October 2007.

Hietalahti shipyard (also known as Helsinki New Shipyard, Finnish: Helsingin uusi telakka) is a shipyard in Hietalahti, in downtown Helsinki, Finland. It is part of STX Finland Cruise Oy shipbuilding company, presently ownned by STX Europe.

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The shipyard were previously knows as the Hietalahti shipyards (Finnish: Hietalahden Sulkutelakka ja Konepaja Oy, Swedish: Sandvikens Skeppsdocka och Mekaniska Verkstads Ab).

The Hietalahti shipyard opened in 1865 and delivered its first ship in 1868. It also constructed horse-drawn trams and railroad cars. In 1965 Wärtsilä bought both the Hietalahti shipyard and the Crichton-Vulcan shipyard in Turku. The shipyards were then renamed into the Helsinki Shipyards and the Turku Shipyard.

In 1991 the Norwegian Kvaerner Masa Yards Oy bought the shipyards and in 2005 the company merged with the Aker Finnyards shipyard in Rauma.

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