Steel is a Finnish pusher vessel owned and operated by ESL Shipping. It is part of the Finnpusku integrated tug and barge system developed in the 1980s by Finnlines, a Finnish shipping company that also managed the vessel until 2003, in co-operation with Rautaruukki for the transportation needs of the steel company. The vessel, built by Hollming in Rauma, Finland, as Finn, was delivered on 28 April 1987 and has since been used mainly to supply raw materials to the Raahe Steel Works.
Pusher Steel without a barge in the port of Raahe.
Rautaruukki, the sister vessel of Steel, and Kalla outside Luleå, Sweden.
Soviet crane ship Stanislav Yudin rightening the capsized Finn-Baltic on 27 January 1991.
Damaged Finn-Baltic after rightening in Hanko on 2 February 1991.
Finnpusku is an integrated tug and barge system owned and operated by ESL Shipping, a Finnish shipping company that specializes in bulk cargo transports in the Baltic Sea. The system was developed in the 1980s by Finnlines, another Finnish shipping company that also managed the vessels until 2003, in co-operation with Rautaruukki to transport raw materials to the Raahe Steel Works. Two pushers and five barges, four of which remain in service, were delivered by Hollming in 1986–1987.
Pusher Rautaruukki and barge Kalla outside Luleå, Sweden.
Pusher Rautaruukki with the barge Botnia outside Raahe, Finland, with the Raahe Steel Works in the background.
Pusher Steel without a barge in the port of Raahe. The Wärtsilä Marine Locomotive coupling devices are visible in the hull behind the superstructure.
Rautaruukki and Tasku at Arctech Helsinki Shipyard on 26 June 2011.
