Newcomer Rauma Marine Constructions (RMC) has signed a EUR 68m ($77m) contract for a new ro-pax.

The Finnish yard, set up in 2014, said the 158-metre car and passenger ship will be delivered to Danish operator Mols-Linien.

It will run to the island of Bornholm from September 2018.

The yard was opened in Rauma after STX shut down its plant there. RMC is part state-owned.