10 Dec 2010
File this story in the "Hard to be believe it's true" category. Finland's National Board of Customs is reporting that the delivery of Allure of the Seas from STX's Turku Shipyard to Royal Caribbean helped contribute to Finland's trade balance ending up about a billion euros in the black.
STX claims that Allure of the Seas is the most valuable individual export product ever delivered from Finland. The improvement in the trade balance is the first time Finland's trade balance has been in the black for the first 10 months of this year.
At the end of the third quarter, the trade balance was still 225 million euros in the red but the delivery of Allure helped fix that imbalance.
