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ing opportunities for cooperation.” Ac- Put to the Test ing of 16.8%. The main services of the ing Facility in Turku, which arranges the cording to Lainio, Finland is the only Aker Arctic Technology Inc. runs an company include designing ice going training in their ship bridge simulators. nation in the world capable of providing ice model basin in Helsinki, Finland. vessels, ice model testing and Arctic re- With a staff of some 60 people, net solution to the U.S. covering the entire The government-owned Finnish Indus- lated consulting and engineering. Aker sales for 2018 is expected to be approxi- icebreaker value chain. “This covers try Investment acquired the majority of Arctic boasts a 76m long, 8m wide ice mately EUR13m. According to Petri To-

R&D, design, construction, operation all the shareholding (66.4%) in 2013, while model basin, as well as an Ice Simula- lonen, Director Sales & Marketing, Aker the way to life cycle services,” Lainio ABB Oy in Finland and Aker Solutions tor for training ship operation in ice, in Arctic’s services are typically used from says. She also points out that Arctia ASA in Norway each have a sharehold- cooperation with the Aboa Mare Train- the start of Arctic projects by oil and gas could, if needed, also lease icebreakers to the USCG while their new icebreakers are being designed and built.

The Finnish Icebreaker Fleet

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Finland has impressive experience in

Stand 221, hall B4 designing, building and operating ice and DNV GL Forum going vessels for all parts of the world.

In addition, the maritime industry in the country has always also focused on ice going vessels in their range of systems and equipment development, many proj- ects initiated from the fact that needed technologies simply were not available on the market. A perfect nearby test- ing ? eld of new ships and systems have been the Baltic, where the Finnish gov- ernment-owned Arctia Ltd. owns and operates the ? eet of eight icebreakers.

Naturally the numerous vessels designed

MODERN CLASS FOR SMARTER OPERATIONS and built for the high Arctic seas, as well as the Antarctic, has resulted in a knowl-

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Arctia is looking to hire its multipur- pose icebreakers for offshore operations for oil companies, and for research and cable laying operations in the Arctic and in other waters. “Our angle to any kind of Arctic offshore industry operations is that if it is done, it has to be done safely and we will be there to provide safety and security in the form of ice manage- ment,” Eero Hokkanen Communica- 98% of our customers say that the tions Manager told Maritime Reporter onboard the icebreaker Polaris in May. management of digital charts and

Currently there are joint research proj- publications became easier and more ects under development. Hokkanen said * a project with the US company Global effective after changing to NAVTOR

Oceans is under development, and “we have also discussed with Alfred Wegener

Institute in Germany.”

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Hokkanen expressed concerns about recent proposals in Russia which would result in restricting, on Russia’s North- ern Sea Route, western Polar icebreaker services. “We certainly hope that these legal changes will not go through, be- cause we would not be able to operate in the Russian Arctic then.” www.navtor.com *Source: NAVTOR customer survey 2018 www.marinelink.com 65

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