Aker Arctic Technology Inc Newsletter September 2012 Arctic PassionNews 2 / 2012 First Chinese polar icebreaker page 3 Photo: Yantar JSC/ Arctech Ice trials in Multi-model Keel laying of Caspian Sea testing now oblique ice- page 6 available breaker page 10 page 15 September 2012 In this issue Towards new environmental Page 2 From the Managing Director challenges Page 3 First Chinese polar icebreaker We are living in an era where greenhouse emissions from international Page 5 Double acting dry cargo ship environmental thinking and new policies shipping. The new regulations will make for Baltic Sea are revolutionising the world shipping mandatory the Energy Efficiency Design framework and setting new challenges, Index, or EEDI. The regulations will Page 6 Ice trials in the Caspian Sea especially for the winter navigation. apply to new ships and are expected to Page 9 S.A. Agulhas in ice trials Only a few weeks ago the European enter into force on 1.1. 2013. Page 10 Multimodel testing begun Parliament adopted the IMO MARPOL Page 12 7th Passion Seminar Annex VI resolution on SOx emissions This is an opportunity for world shipping Page 14 New CFD program in use reduction to 0,1 % for the ECA areas, to bring their effort into sharing the including the Baltic and North Seas, from principles of the Kioto 1997 Protocol, Page 15 Oblique icebreaker under 31.12.2014 onwards and to 0,5 % for which entered into force February 16th, construction other European areas from 31.12.2019 2005 after Russia's ratification. Page 15 What's up onwards. Similarly NOx emissions are Page 20 In the heart of the city pushed down byArctic the Tier Passion III regulations, NewsAker No. Arctic 5 has already produced its first Coming events valid from 2016 onwards. LNG fuel driven vessel design. This example clearly proves that we are on It is not too many years ago that the the brink of a new era in energy strive for higher ship speeds in new ship efficiency and environmental Announcements design was very important. A performance - and that shipping can help containership with a 20 knot service lead the way forward. speed was overridden by another with a Tatiana Aaltonen 21 knot service speed, an so on, but the The new regulations and environmental replaces Jana escalating price of fuel eventually standards are quite a challenge to winter Vamberova as brought this race to an abrupt halt. Now and Arctic shipping as breaking of ice Management all operators are slow-steaming their always used to call for added power. Assistant during ships. Therefore new innovative solutions are Jana's maternity needed, not only for traditional shipping, leave until Today, commercial, regulatory and but especially for ice going vessels, spring 2013. environmental imperatives dictate that where totally new energy-efficient fuel efficiency is the new bible for naval solutions will be in high demand. At Aker architects and marine engineers. The Arctic we have put our brains together to Artur Nerman challenge is to mitigate the impact of bring new solutions; the DAS™ concept joined AARC in May rising fuel prices, meet impending is known for the 40% energy saving, as as Hydrodynamic international regulations and to make is the high efficiency of the trimaran Engineer. sure that shipping improves even further mode for icebreaking. A new ICE- He graduated in on the already excellent record as the ECOtanker is also being introduced to January 2012 from most environmental-friendly mode of the shipping community soon, as another Aalto University transportation. example of AARC's innovative search for specializing in new concepts in this work. Marine Technology. Nobody in the shipping community can be unaware of the breakthrough adoption, in July 2011, at IMO's Marine Elena Tsvetkova Environment Protection Committee has been appointed (MEPC), of mandatory technical and Marketing and operational measures to reduce Mikko Niini Sales Assistant. She was born in Russia and has graduated as an engineer from Finland's Mikkeli University of Applied Sciences in 2002 and from Helsinki Institute of Marketing in 2007. Riikka Matala Front cover: Mangystau 2 is one of the Aker Arctic Technology Inc’s newsletter has in September Publisher: five Caspian icebreaking tugboats that been appointed Aker Arctic Technology Inc Aker Arctic has developed and designed Merenkulkijankatu 6 Research Engineer 00980 Helsinki, Finland for STX OSV AS, who delivered the in the testing Tel. +358 10 670 2000 series successfully to Caspian Offshore Fax +358 10 670 2527 department. She is [email protected] Construction group of companies in completing her www.akerarctic.fi Kazakhstan. The tug's normal Editor in chief: Mikko Niini studies at Aalto Texts by: CS Communications Oy icebreaking capability is 0,6 m level ice, University and finalising her thesis Lay-out: Kari Selonen which was verified in recent full scale ice work on icepressure . Printed in September 2012 by DMP trials (see page 6). 2 Arctic Passion News September 2012 First Chinese polar research icebreaker Aker Arctic has been selected for the conceptual and basic design of the new Polar Research Vessel for China A plan has been organized by programs the vessel will have marine Arctic areas and the need for reliable and atmospheric observing and sampling and efficient vessels. The design is State Oceanic Administration capabilities closely related with climate expected to take 7 months to complete. (SOA), China, Chinese Arctic change monitoring. The marine The contract value exceeds five million and Antarctic Administration geological and geophysical capabilities euros. (CAA) and the Polar Research will give possibilities for seasonal polar The polar research icebreaker for China marine geology, marine gravity, magnetic will be designed to accommodate a total Institute of China (PRIC) to and seismic surveys. For marine of 90 persons and will have a length over build an advanced new biological and ecological programs the all of about 120 meters, a maximum icebreaking research vessel to vessel will enable marine organism and breadth of 22,3 m and draught of 8,5 m. ecological surveys and act as a The vessel will have the ability to break meet the increased need of biological research platform. The vessel through 1,5 m of level ice at 2 to 3 knots polar scientific research. may also be used for Antarctic station speed, including multi-year ice. The logistic tasks undertaking some of M/V vessel will be fitted with twin azimuthing Xuelong's missions especially in heavy propeller drives. Ice class will be PC3 Advanced equipment sea ice conditions. and the vessel will have dual The new vessel will be equipped with Second governmental classification from China Classification advanced scientific equipment for polar Society (CCS) and Lloyds Register (LR). oceans research. The integrated survey icebreaker project systems include marine geological and Aker Arctic has been selected to perform Long traditions in geophysical equipment and marine the conceptual and basic design of the shipbuilding co-operation biological and ecological instruments. new vessel. This is already the second China and Finland have quite deep and Meanwhile, helicopters with associated governmental icebreaker project in a long traditions in shipbuilding co- systems will also be provided. short time for Aker Arctic and thus a operation. For the integrated environmental science proof of the increasing interest in the 3 Arctic Passion News September 2012 “This contract is very important for solving the increasing needs of polar scientific research. As the first polar scientific research icebreaker for China, its successful design and build will not only push forward our polar scientific research career by achieving more successes, but will also make great development on Chinese ship construction industry", says Mr.Qu Tanzhou, Director General, Chinese Arctic and Antarctic Administration of State Oceanic Administration. Very few still remember that Finland was all of them with whom our shipyard group “The award is a significant milestone for among the first nations to open foreign in Finland signed co-operation the Finnish icebreaker design and trade relations with China in the early agreements.” construction expertise”, says Mikko Niini, 1950s, one of the highlights being a ”A breakthrough, however, was reached Managing Director of Aker Arctic number of contracts from China for six on the more icy front. Under the Technology Inc. “Working currently 3.200 ton general cargo steamers with framework of the Technology Co- already for the Canadian John G. our Turku shipyard, the vessels being operation between our Governments a Diefenbaker polar icebreaker, this delivered between 1955 and 1957. deal was reached for model tests for a contract in China is a clear evidence of ”Several efforts to intensify the co- Floating Production Unit, which had the our global role in the development of operation were made over the years. At challenge to operate in the freezing advanced Arctic technologies and the end of the 1990s our President Martti Bohai Bay. Model tests were conducted solutions". Ahtisaari made an official state visit to in Finland and the ice problems were China. We then initiated and carried out solved. This project already showed the several years of discussion on strength and depth of the Finnish technological co-operation on LNG expertise in ice technology.” says Mikko carriers with various Chinese Niini, Managing Director of AARC. ¡ organisations, including three shipyards, M/T ENISEY - one more DAS™ Arctic tanker in service As the first step in their export logistic system renewalsix years ago JSC GMK Norilsk Nickel took delivery of the first unit of a new double-acting ship that was developed by Aker Arctic. The first unit MS Norilsk Nickel was built in Helsinki at the yard now known as Arctech Helsinki Shipyard. The success and the benefits of the first unit operating independently without icebreakers in the astern mode were so evident that the company decided to build four more of these 14.500 tdw vessels.