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Ship Design & Engineering
Aker Arctic offers a range of proven icebreaking ship designs for different operational needs.
Ship types include:
- icebreakers
- ice-going vessels such as cargo ships and tankers
- vessels intended for arctic offshore operations like AHS and OSV
- polar research vessels
Our experience and expertise enable us to offer a wide range of services related to:
- feasibility studies, ship specifications and tender designs, basic designs
- designs which can be customised to operational requirements, e.g. the standard Aker ARC series
- offshore structures, designing for ice loads and structural design
- design criteria based on environmental conditions and operating profile
- winterization specifications and solutions
- hull optimization for open water and/or ice conditions
- ship performance and power predictions
- icebreaking capability in a variety of conditions
- structural dimensioning, global and local forces
- ship propulsion systems in ice, loads and dimensioning, complete designs.
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