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Icebreaker Polaris Begins Work Page 10 Aker Arctic Technology Inc Newsletter March 2017 Arctic Passion News 1 / 2017 / 13 Icebreaker Polaris begins work Page 10 Icebreaking needs and Model testing of Ice Harmonising model tests plans on the Northern Strengthened Lifeboat for power requirements Sea Route Page 11 Page 14 Page 4 Aker Arctic Technology Inc Newsletter March 2017 In this issue Page 2 From the Managing Director Dear Reader, Page 3 Finland to chair the Arctic Council Page 4 Icebreaking needs on the NSR The year 2017 is quite significant for Page 8 Will EEDI become tighter Finland when it comes to Arctic matters, Page 9 Polar Code training as Finland is taking the chairmanship in Page 10 Polaris begins work the Arctic Council, and the same year Page 11 Ice strengthened lifeboat celebrating the nation's centenary of testing independence. This results in a number Page 12 Basics about ice part 1 of special events that also affect our Page 14 Harmonising model tests businesses in the Arctic region. Although Page 16 Intelligent de-icing Aker Arctic is focusing on technical Page 17 News in brief matters and development of the Page 20 Christmas party in Åland solutions to be used in both Arctic and Meet us here other icebreaking vessels, administrative actions are of much interest to us. This year will show how the major and Announcements pioneering Arctic project, Sabetta Regulatory issues are developing. terminal, the first ever real Arctic LNG Alexey Shtrek has This is the first year of polar code project, is coming onstream. This project joined Aker Arctic as development implementation, and we also see is a great showcase of how the new manager. significant development in the vessels and technological solutions will Alexey graduated environmental codes, EEDI, BWM and be used in the extreme Arctic conditions. from the St. Petersburg State IMO regulations, which show the way for It is also paving the way for future Marine Technical the future. The main focus and projects, and hopefully showing that University in 2000 importance is in open water shipping Arctic projects can be carried out in a with a Master's because it dominates the volume of the timely manner while also being safe and Degree, and previously worked in the ships, and thus has the greatest sustainable. The new activities also Laboratory of Icebreaking Technology of Central Marine Research and Design influence on global emissions. The Arctic require more supporting services, such Institute. He has participated in the region on the other hand is suffering as ice forecasting, operative feasibility studies of new icebreakers and most from climate change. We have in management, training etc. Aker Arctic is Arctic cargo vessels, research and development, expert consulting works on recent years seen alarming signs of how active in developing those either their designs, as well as taken part in changes in the Arctic are quick and big. independently or in co-operation with experimental voyages and full-scale trials IMO level regulations are to be applied other organisations. of ice-going ships. Many of these have also in ice-classed vessels. They create been done together with the Aker Arctic team. a special difficulty, as low-energy In this issue of Arctic Passion News you solutions are often controversial to the can read the latest information on the Jesse Lehtonen has practical ice vessel operations. This vessel projects that we have had the been appointed project engineer, and challenge drives us even further to privilege of being part of. I find it will be working with develop ships with easier icebreaking extremely interesting to be making machinery system technologies as well as vessels' system history in icebreaking and Arctic shipping design. Jesse solutions, which are clean and efficient. together with our clients and partners. graduated as a Naval Architect from the Aalto University A great example of this is the Polaris Best Regards, School of Engineering icebreaker, which in addition to using Reko-Antti Suojanen in January 2017. In his Master's thesis he LNG fuel has been designed to have Managing Director studied simulations of propulsion system dynamics under propeller-ice interaction. systems that save fuel and energy. Despite these solutions, Polaris has the Heikki Sipilä retired from Aker Arctic in best icebreaking capabilities in its duty October 2016 after a as a Baltic heavy icebreaker. long career in the ship development and ship engineering Front cover: industry. He worked Brand new LNG Baltic icebreaker Polaris (left) side by side with mostly in Turku, Finland first with icebreaker Urho (right), at Katajanokka in Helsinki in January Wärtsilä, then Masa 2017, a few days before Polaris departed for icebreaking duty Yards and lastly at STX Lifecycle Services in the Bay of Bothnia. before joining Aker Arctic. We wish Heikki a happy retirement! 2 Aker Arctic Technology Inc Newsletter March 2017 Finland to chair the Arctic Council 2017-2019 Minister of Foreign Affairs of Finland Timo Soini (third from the right) at the Glacier- meeting in Alaska in 2015. Courtesy of the U.S. Department of State Finland will take over the two-year chairmanship of the Arctic Finland has a great deal to offer to Arctic Council from the U.S. at the beginning of May 2017. The focus cooperation in terms of Arctic-related expertise. Finland has several biological will be on implementing the Paris Agreement on climate change research stations in Lapland, where and the UN sustainable development goals as part of Arctic Arctic ecology is being studied. The cooperation. A more detailed programme will be published in Arctic Centre, a separate institute affiliated to the University of Lapland in April 2017. Rovaniemi, carries out interdisciplinary research on the effects of global The Arctic Council was established twenty The Arctic Council's foreign ministerial changes on Arctic nature and Arctic years ago as a high level meeting is organised every second year. societies. The University of Oulu is a intergovernmental forum to enhance The next ministerial meeting will be held centre for Arctic medical sciences. Arctic- cooperation, coordination and interaction in May 2017 in Fairbanks and the related issues can be found also in the on common Arctic issues. The member following towards the end of the Finnish teaching and research programs of many states are Finland, Sweden, Norway, chairmanship in spring 2019. other institutions of higher education in Denmark, Iceland, Russian Federation, Finland. the United States of America and Canada. Finnish goals Finnish industry has expertise and The region's indigenous peoples such as The Arctic Team at the Ministry for modern technology in such fields as the Sami also participate in the Foreign Affairs will coordinate Finland's Arctic transportation and navigation in cooperation. The Council is a forum for Chairmanship. The programme has been ice-covered waters, Arctic construction, promoting environmental protection, prepared in cooperation between actors Arctic environmental technology as well sustainable development, and the representing the entire state as the development of Arctic wellbeing of the inhabitants of the Arctic administration and different interest infrastructure. areas. groups. The Finnish Chairmanship will Mr Timo Soini, Minister of Foreign The Council has during its existence focus on environmental protection, Affairs of Finland, expressed in his played a leading role in delivering world- meteorological cooperation, as well as speech at the Arctic Circle Conference in class scientific assessments, addressing improving communication and education October 2016 why Arctic cooperation is the impacts of globalisation and climate as part of Arctic cooperation. According important. change, and facilitating cooperative to René Söderman, Senior Adviser at the “In the 21st century, the Arctic has the responses to these challenges. The Arctic Ministry for Foreign Affairs, the Arctic potential to become a hub between Council has also provided a forum for the Team will publish a more detailed Europe, America and Asia. Natural negotiation of two important legally programme in April 2017. resources and the opening of new sea binding agreements among the eight In issues related to the economy, routes in the Arctic may bring many Arctic states, both of which came into close collaboration with the Arctic benefits, but also challenges. In view of force in 2013. These are the Agreement Economic Council will be sought. The these unprecedented changes we need on Cooperation on Aeronautical and Arctic Council's Chairmanship provides to safeguard sustainable development of Maritime Search and Rescue in the Arctic, an opportunity for Finland to strengthen the Arctic region.” and the Agreement on Cooperation on its Arctic image and raise awareness of Marine Oil Pollution Preparedness and Finnish expertise in operating in cold Response in the Arctic. conditions. 16 Aker Arctic Technology Inc Newsletter March 2017 Icebreaking needs and plans on the Northern Sea Route Dynamic of cargo volume on the NSR Growth of shipping on the Northern Sea over the past 25 years (transit and domestic) Route has been connected with the commercial exploration of the Arctic regions. Icebreaker fleet and duly ice-strengthened transport vessels successfully transport natural resources and deliver equipment, and commodities to and from the areas of difficult access. Although the NSR offers opportunities as a shorter transit route for shipping, the main growth forecasts in transportation are currently related to the exploration of new fields and exportation of raw materials from the Arctic shelf. The seaway of Northern Sea Route export of oil from the oil fields of the NSR transit navigation (NSR) is running through Kara, Laptev, Timan-Pechora region through the Since 2010, large-capacity ships of East Siberian, and Chukchi seas. The stationary sea ice-resistant shipping appropriate ice classes have carried out NSR can be entered from west through terminal Varandey has been going on transit cargo transportation during the Straits Yugorskiy Shar and Karskiye several years.
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