Our 20th anniversary article series continues with the story of the pioneering oblique icebreaker Baltika, featuring an asymmetrical hull. She can break wide channels in ice using her port side and recover oil spills with her starboard side. The oblique icebreaker concept emerged from an internal innovation contest in the mid-1990s. At that time, new … Continue reading The world’s first oblique icebreaker raised agility to a new level