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Fri 8 Aug 2014, 07:06 GMT

Deltamarin wins design contract for LNG-fuelled icebreaker


Vessel is scheduled to be delivered in 2016.

Deltamarin Ltd has been awarded a contract by Arctech Helsinki Shipyard Inc. for the entire machinery and technical spaces outfitting production design of the very first LNG-powered icebreaker. The vessel is to be built for the Finnish Transport Agency, and aims to reduce emissions and fuel costs by using both diesel and liquefied natural gas (LNG) as fuel.

The icebreaker has been planned especially for operations in the most challenging icebreaking conditions in the Baltic Sea. Equipped with advanced technology, the vessel is being built to also handle oil spill response operations and emergency towing in demanding conditions at open sea in both winter and summer. This is to ensure year-round safe seaborne transports in the Baltic Sea. The ship is scheduled to be delivered by the beginning of 2016.

The main dimensions of the vessel will be 110 metres in overall length, 24 metres in breadth and a maximum draught of 8 metres.

It will be built to move continuously through about 1.6-metre thick ice and the service speed of the vessel in open water will be 16 knots. The icebreaker will have accommodation for a total of 24 people, with reserve for additional crew in case of oil spill response operations.

The work will be carried out using the AVEVA Marine Outfitting software. Deltamarin has previously delivered similar design packages for several icebreakers built at Arctech.

The value of Deltamarin's design contract is around 1.8 million euros and the work is to be carried out over an estimated period of 12 months.

Design   LNG   Newbuild   Finland 
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