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…
At any given time, Aker Arctic’s ship design department has a few dozen active projects of various sizes in various stages of competition, ranging from minor consultancy work and preliminary…
An autonomous ship model has been successfully tested in Aker Arctic's ice model test laboratory in Helsinki, Finland. In the demonstration test the ship model was able to detect obstacles…
Aker Arctic Technology Inc., the leading designer of the ice class vessels and ICEYE, the leader in synthetic-aperture radar (SAR) technology for microsatellites, today announced an agreement to develop…
Aker Arctic’s annual customer 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.…