Cradling the new deliveries from Helsinki

Azipods are big, reaching up to 9m high and weighing 200 tonnes each

The obvious conundrum to moving large Azipod units to waiting shipyards is that although they are designed to be streamlined while in the water, they are anything but elegant and easy to move when out of the water.

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