(from left to right, front row): Laurent Castaing, CEO of Chantiers de l’Atlantique, and Mikko Kuosa, CEO of NAPA. Behind them: Guillaume Lagree (Technical Senior Vice President, Chantiers de l’Atlantique), Claire Baccard (Hull Technical Department Manager, Chantiers de l’Atlantique), Christophe Dutrieux (Chief Information Officer SVP, Chantiers de l’Atlantique), Mikko Forss (Executive Vice President, NAPA Design Solutions), and Joonas Kuusela (Senior Sales Manager, NAPA Design Solutions). Leading shipyard selects NAPA to strengthen 3D-based workflows, innovation and efficiency in ship design, from the very early stage of hull design to production design .   Helsinki (Finland) and Saint-Nazaire (France); 11 March 2025:   Chantiers de l’Atlantique , one of the largest shipyards in Europe, has entered a collaborative agreement with NAPA, a global provider of maritime software and digital services, to enhance the efficiency of its hull design process by co-developing advanced 3D software and digital workflows. The two companies will collaborate to digitalize and enhance the detail design processes at Chantiers de l’Atlantique using  NAPA Steel , the industry-leading 3D structural design tool. By integrating NAPA Steel with a software used in the production design stage, the combined solution will enable teams of engineers and naval architects to communicate swiftly and  work together from the basic design stage, with hull design and outfitting, through to production design.  This helps manage growing design complexity and allows Chantiers de l’Atlantique to meet customers’ needs for efficient, safe and innovative vessels. This digital leap is driven by the recognition that no software alone can meet all the needs of the design process, from the basic to production design. Tackling this challenge, Chantiers de l’Atlantique adopted a pragmatic, ‘best-of-breed’ approach. This is where enterprises can bring together different software to perform a