Arctic Circle
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- New Shipyard Operating North Of Arctic Circle Maritime Reporter, Jul 15, 1977 #26
Harstad Staalindustri, a new and extremely modern shipyard, is in operation. It is located in the city of Harstad in northern Norway, on about the same latitude as the north slope of Alaska. The new yard, which is building fishing boats, tugboats and other coastal vessels, is a joint venture between three repair and construction yards in the city. The yard will build hulls to be outfitted at the parent companies.
The project was initiated in 1972, when the owners retained S h i p p i n g R e s e a r c h Services (SRS), an international consulting firm for shipbuilding and shipping with offices in Oslo, Norway, and Alexandria, Va., to make a feasibility study for the project.
The study included preliminary plans for the yard and a forecast of profitability that showed that the project was feasible.
The owners established a joint subsidiary and retained SRS to prepare detailed project plans and cost estimates for the yard. The plans were completed and approved in 1974. C o n s t r u c t i on started in 1975, and in the fall of 1976 the yard was in operation.
In April of 1977, the first hull—a 156-foot multipurpose fishing vessel— was launched.
The yard is a completely enclosed facility consisting of a fabrication shop and a large welding and erection shop. The shops are heated and insulated. The heating system includes a heat recovery ventilating system.
Hulls are erected on indoor ways which are designed so that a hull can be pushed out in steps as it is being completed. This arrangement provides space for starting erection of the next hull before launching the first one.
Heavy emphasis was placed on employing labor-saving methods and equipment while staying within a reasonable investment budget.
Based on a thorough analysis of costs and savings, the owners decided to install a numerical controlled cutting machine and implement the AUTOKON system for computerized engineering and lofting. Shipping Research Services maintains and markets the AUTOKON system. This is one of the smallest yards that has implemented an N/C system for in-house operation.
The yard will produce five to six hulls a year, totaling 2,000 to 2,500 tons of steel. The total investments, including office building, came to less than $10 million.
Shipping Research Services Inc. is located at 205 South Whiting Street, Alexandria, Va. 22304.
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- Specialty Workboat Missions Propelled by Innovative Engines Marine News, Sep 2014 #34
River Delta and the Beaufort Sea. Sugloo Marine’s operation is likely the northernmost work boat operation in North America. Operating above the Arctic Circle, reliability is paramount and downtime is totally unacceptable. Enter Volvo Penta into the equation. The Sugloo 46-foot aluminum landing craft
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- An Open Arctic and its Impact on Oil Drilling Marine News, Nov 2014 #58
Veritas Group, explains why improvements in drilling technologies and weather monitoring systems have made offshore shelf drilling operations in the Arctic Circle increasingly attractive to upstream oil and gas companies and their investors. Rising crude oil prices motivate not only technological innovators
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- USCG PSC Equals meaningful Polar Presence Maritime Reporter, Nov 2019 #44
1867 for the purchase of Alaska the U.S. has been an Arctic nation. Today, it is one of eight countries that have territorial land or seas above the Arctic Circle or in the polar region (six of those countries have Arctic Ocean coastline or an exclusive economic zone above the Arctic Circle). The U.S. has
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- Floating Factory Completes Nine-Day, 2,500-Mile Voyage To Canadian Arctic Maritime Reporter, Oct 1981 #13
A factory barge as big as a football field recently completed a 2,500-mile voyage from the St. Lawrence River to a small island in the Canadian Arctic. It arrived nine days ahead of schedule — at Little Cornwallis Island, 600 miles above the Arctic Circle, to help exploit the most northerly base
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- Ice Tech: The Northern Promise Maritime Reporter, Jun 2004 #42
activity. Industry sources believe that the port of Murmansk, blessed with freedom from ice throughout the year, despite its location within the Arctic Circle, on the Barents Sea, will come to play a pivotal role in the export of northern Russian crude. It is foreseen that oil will be worked into Murmansk
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- Sailing into the Arctic’s Future Marine News, Oct 2016 #26
Norway have been receiving oil and natural gas from offshore projects operating in the far north, and Russia has upped longstanding activity above the Arctic Circle by recently opening the Arctic gate marine terminal linking Russia’s Arctic-sourced crude oil to European and Asian markets. There is no reason
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- OP/Ed: Obama’s Arctic Decision Undercut His Own Legacy Marine News, Mar 2017 #18
using far more advanced modern day technology. As other Arctic nations are proving that safe offshore exploration and development can be done above the Arctic Circle, Obama benched the United States. Furthermore, President Obama based this decision on a willful ignorance of what resources are actually in the
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- Round the Clock Business Demands Seamless Comms Marine News, Feb 2019 #42
century, offers towing and assist services throughout the Puget Sound, along the Pacific Coast into Canada, to Alaska including remote ports above the Arctic Circle, and across the Pacific Ocean to Hawaii and beyond. But, for Dunlap, who operates a 12-Vessel Fleet, it has been the coastal routes around Dutch
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- The Future of Arctic Drilling: 90 Billion Barrels & Counting Marine Technology, Apr 2014 #38
as to what the future of Arctic drilling will be in the coming years. In 2008, the United States Geological Survey estimated that areas north of the Arctic Circle had an estimated 90 billion barrels of undiscovered, “technically recoverable” oil. But seeing as the region is covered by ice three fourths of
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- The World’s Cold Ocean Lab Marine Technology, Mar 2015 #58
Arctic. It sits along Iceberg Alley, along multiple key international shipping lanes, and its waters are the Northern hemispheres coldest south of the Arctic Circle. It is this unique mix of proximity and Arctic-like conditions that make the province a natural cold ocean laboratory. Centuries of answering
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- Foss is Upbeat on the Arctic Marine News, Jan 2014 #31
tens of millions of tons of concentrated ore for Red Dog Mine, one of world’s largest zinc concentrate producers, located 200 miles north of the Arctic Circle. Foss developed self-loading barges to transfer that ore to bulk carriers from a shallow-draft port. The mine operates under an agreement between
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April 2024 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 28? eet replenishment oiler USNS Joshua Humphreys for services as needed. For example, we (T-AO 188) sends fuel to MSC’s fast combat support ship USNS Arctic (T-AOE have ? ve leased tankers deliver petro- 8) during an underway replenishment at sea in the Atlantic Ocean, July 17. leum products to our storage
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April 2024 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 6Editorial MARITIME REPORTER AND ENGINEERING NEWS his month’s coverage is M A R I N E L I N K . C O M almost an afterthought HQ 118 E. 25th St., 2nd Floor following the tragedy that New York, NY 10010 USA T +1.212.477.6700 Tunfolded in Baltimore in the wee hours of Tuesday, March 26, CEO John C.
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February 2024 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 32REPAIR Photo Courtesy Marine and Industrial Transmissions ings to optimize load distribution. A large number of the incidents analyzed by Gard were attributed to ghost ? shing gear that enter the stern tube seal area causing seawater to contaminate the lubrication oil. A 2022 study by CSIRO scientists
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February 2024 - Marine News page: 42director of Broward County’s Port Rella Barton dent of St. Johns Ship Building. Everglades Department. Barton Named Vineyard CEO New Leadership at Aker Arctic Vineyard Offshore named Alicia Bar- Aker Arctic has appointed Mika Hov- ton as its new CEO. ilainen as interim managing director and CEO following
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January 2024 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 41founding 23 years ago, more than 450 that our part can be proven, improved and expanded upon,” people have been trained, helping scientists discover Arctic implored McNeill. By assessing the extent of anthropogenic change and delivering this information to global audiences. impacts in extreme environments
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January 2024 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 37changes are occurring in the communications and safety. The instrumentation to be used on board by the team will be sorted by February 2024 through a Arctic that affect the rest of the world and yet, scienti? cally, it consortium of ocean scientists, shared McNeill. Additionally, is still poorly understood
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November 2023 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 23“In keeping with that spirit, Arctic Storm challenged us with delivering an integrated package that would allow the crew to maximize catch ef? ciency – reducing both time on the water and vessel emissions – while working seamlessly within the ship’s Brett Johnson, Jess Woodruff, wider operation
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November 2023 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 22TECH FEATURE SONAR Arctic Fjord - full Kongsberg Discovery package for more ef? cient location, inspection and engagement with Alaskan pollock. THE FUTURE OF FISHING: ARCTIC STORM Ludeman Photographic-Sammamish he ? rst US-built trawler-processor for Alaskan pollock mize catch ef? ciency – reducing
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November 2023 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 2Editor’s Note 6 Authors & Contributors 7 Editorial Board 8 Legal Beat: Offshore Wind 20 Eye on the Navy: NATO & Unmanned Systems 22 Sonar on the Arctic Storm 40 Sea? oor Mapping 42 Case Study: ROV DVL Tech 47 Classi? eds 48 Advertisers Index Haven Dredging Massa © Thom Maughan MBARI 2023 34 Novemb
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December 2023 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 36the mass migration incidents and other events. The cutters will Coast Guard. Revenue Cutter Argus began 13 years of ser- also conduct operations in the Arctic by helping regulate and vice to the young United States of America, making her ? rst protect emerging commerce, support ? sheries enforcement
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November 2023 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 49FINLAND Arctia’s newest icebreaker, Polaris, was designed by Aker Arctic to op- erate in all local ice conditions. Built by Arctech Helsinki Shipyard in 2016 based up the Aker ARC 130 concept, the ves- © Marko Hannula / Adobe Stock sel is 110 meters long with a 24-meter beam and an 8-meter draft
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November 2023 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 48that developed the vessel. to build a new icebreaking vessel for the supply of its 13 to 2.5-meter-thick multiyear ice, and astern in more severe ice Antarctic stations. In addition, Aker Arctic has helped to de- conditions such as heavy ice ridges. velop an ice-strengthened propulsion line for the new Po- hjanmaa-
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November 2023 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 47FINLAND Photo: Eric Haun Aker Arctic’s Helsinki headquarters houses the world’s only privately owned ice model testing facility, used for trialing new concepts and designs in real ice conditions. Arctia-operated Fennica is designed to be used as an icebreaker in the Baltic Sea during the winter and
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November 2023 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 46, designing and building icebreaking vessels is very strong in Photo: Eric Haun Finland,” said Reko-Antti Suojanen, managing director at Aker Arctic Technology, an engineering company specializing in icebreakers. “We hold the position as the world leader in this segment.” From left: Aker Arctic
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November 2023 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 45. of the world’s “Developing, designing and building icebreaking vessels is very strong in Finland,” said Reko-Antti Suojanen, managing director at Aker Arctic Technology, an engineering company icebreakers, and specializing in icebreakers. “We hold the position as the world leader in this segment.” Suojanen
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September 2023 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 76MTR 100 ARCTIC RAYS ARCTIC RAYS in the surveying industry. With partners https://arcticrays.com globally, Sea? oor has a wide range of Arctic Rays specializes in deep-sea vessels and platforms to ? t any job. Its lighting, imaging and surveillance sys- team of engineers and former surveyors tems and
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September 2023 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 66, regularly attracting a global mote environments often encountered in global defense sector. Engineered for audience of leaders in business, science, Arctic sub-ice missions. The hydrogen mission planning, covert navigation, and from key governmental and aca- fuel cell technology integrated into the target
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September 2023 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 56of Photo by Kevin Hardy, Global Ocean Design Commercial ? rms that manufacture self-powered/self-re- cording underwater camera and light systems include: Arctic Rays (FL) https://arcticrays.com/products/customsystems/ Group B Inc (FL) https://www.groupbinc.com/ SubC Imaging (NL) https://www.subcimaging
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September 2023 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 46for survey opera- Saildrone USVs have already sailed nearly 1,000,000 nauti- tions, including high-resolution MBES and Innomar SBP cal miles from the Arctic to the Antarctic, spending some systems, and can deliver long-duration IHO-compliant mul- 25,000 days at sea. Saildrone’s masthead 360° optical cam- tibeam
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September 2023 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 44is subject to biofouling, these cells extremely well suited for subsea, oceanographic, then the mechanical wipers that are required to keep the sen- and Arctic applications.” sor windows clean will also be a factor,” says Lee. RS Aqua’s batteries were recently put on SEABER’s YUCO Electrochem Solutions produces
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September 2023 - Marine Technology Reporter page: 230 A.G.O. Environmental Electronics 42 Nauticus Robotics 36 All American Marine 14 Neil Brown Ocean Sensors, Inc. (NBOSI) 36 Alseamar 10 NORBIT 69 Arctic Rays 56, 76 NOVACAVI 74 Argeo 16 Ocean Alpha 69 Balmoral 59 Ocean Scientifc International Ltd 70 Birns 14, 56 Ohmsett 45 Blueprint Subsea
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September 2023 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 32NATIONAL SECURITY MULTI-MISSION VESSEL (NSMV) PHILLY SHIPYARD TO THE FORE ON NSMV All photos courtesy Philly Shipyard Philly Shipyard is in the midst of building ? ve National Security Multi-Mission Vessel (NSMV), a transformational project in U.S. shipbuilding as it’s a government ship built via best
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August 2023 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 12Back to the Drawing Board T e Internet is Not As Useful as We May T ink By Rik van Hemmen was discussing torsional stiffness in ship’s hulls with one of our intern engineers and pointed out a torsional stiffness problem with a certain hull design section since I it could not inscribe a decent sized
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June 2023 - Maritime Reporter and Engineering News page: 35PROFILE: ARDMORE SHIPPING BUILDS A BETTER FLEET hile Cork, Ireland-based Ardmore Shipping, Innovators Innovate founded in 2010, is relatively new in ship- Noonan joined Ardmore from BP Shipping in October ping circles, it is hardly a neophyte, sporting 2014, where he had been sailing as a Marine Engineer