Chantiers de l'Atlantique

Chantiers de l'Atlantique, is a shipyard based in Saint-Nazaire, France. It forms part of the STX France SA business unit, majority owned by STX Europe with a 66.6% stake and the balance 33.34% held by the French state. It is one of the world's largest shipyards, constructing a wide range of commercial, naval and passenger ships.

The shipyard was owned by Alstom from 1984, and became part of Aker Yards when Aker Group acquired the Alstom Marine business in 2006. In 2008, the South Korean company STX Corporation acquired Aker Yards, and the shipyard became part of STX Europe (formed by the renaming of Aker Yards).

Its location near Nantes, France, at the mouth of the Loire and the deep waters of the Atlantic makes sailing large ships in and out easier.

Ateliers et Chantiers de la Loire and Ateliers et Chantiers de Saint-Nazaire Penhoët merged in 1955 to form Chantiers de l'Atlantique. The yard started by building ships for the French transatlantic line Compagnie Générale Transatlantique. In 1961, it built the trans-Atlantic superliner SS France, then the world's longest passenger vessel.

After the construction of the last Compagnie Générale Transatlantique liner and the closure of the Suez Canal, the yard began building large tankers, including Batillus, Bellamya, Pierre Guillaumat and Prairial. A new dry dock (Basin C) was built for this purpose and would have allowed the construction of tankers over 1,000,000 tonnes, but it remained unused between the 1970s and the construction of two cruise ships for Holland America Line , Noordam an Niuwe Amsterdam in 1983 and. 84. Then from 1985 to end of 1998 it was a series of cruise ships for RCCL starting with the Sovereign of the Seas delivered in 87, thefirst of the Mega cruise ship in the world. Then followed Monarch of the Seas and Majesty of the Seas also RCCl. Then Nordic Express in 1990. In 1995 leveres Legend of the Seas, the first of 4 Vision class ships to be built at CA. She is followed by Splendour in 1996, Rhapsody in 1997 and Vision in 1998. Then the "Queen Mary 2" in 2003,

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