A 1980s Wärtsilä documentary about the full-scale ice trials of Otso on our YouTube channel: In March 1986, the Finnish diesel-electric icebreaker Otso was put through a…
Naming ceremony for the four Arc 7 class ice-breaking LNG tankers took place at Daewoo shipyard (South Korea). LNG carriers are the world’s first ice breaking LNGCs. Nice pic
New issue of Aker Arctic´s magazine "Arctic Passion News" is published. The issue number 17 you will find here. The magazine is our own production, where we review our…
Aker Arctic’s annual seminar, where Arctic specialists and other professionals from the shipping, shipbuilding and other related industries from around the world have gathered in Helsinki, Finland, since 2006, took…
14th Arctic Passion Seminar is today in Helsinki. Our annual customer event is a forum to discuss prominent Arctic issues. In addition to presenting the latest projects from Aker Arctic, the event…
Bronze has been the preferred material for open water and low ice class ship propellers for decades. Few years ago, Aker Arctic began investigating the possibility of using it also…
On 15 December 2018, Andrey Vilkitsky arrived in St. Petersburg after completing sea trials in the Gulf of Finland. The icebreaker will soon depart for the Gulf of Ob in…
The naming ceremony for the Arctic condensate tanker Boris Sokolov was held at Guangzhou Shipyard International on 4 December 2018. The Arc7 ice class ship is named after Captain Sokolov…
Construction of the polar exploration vessel, Le Commandant Charcot, has officially started with the traditional steel cutting ceremony taking place on 6 November 2018. Thanks to the Double…
To transport Liquefied Natural Gas from Yamal LNG, which is located in the Arctic and constitutes one of the world’s biggest LNG projects, Total and its partners have designed…
To transport Liquefied Natural Gas from Yamal LNG, which is located in the Arctic and constitutes one of the world’s biggest LNG projects, Total and its partners have designed…