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WINTER NAVIGATION 2019 – 2020 Cover Photo: Assistance Bottenviken Photo: © Amund E WINTER NAVIGATION 2019 – 2020 Cover Photo: Assistance Bottenviken Photo: © Amund E. B. Lindberg Edition: 600 copies Print: DanagårdLITHO, November 2019 Contents 1. General information Page 1.1 Ice-breaking service 1 1.2 The Executive Boards of Ice-breaking Service and Icebreakers 1-3 1.3 Local Offices 4-7 2. Information about Winter Navigation (Information for industry, ship owners, shippers and charterers) 2.1 Common information 8 2.2 Traffic restrictions 8-9 2.3 Exemptions 9 2.4 Prioritization 9 2.5 Traffic information 9 3. Navigating in Ice 3.1 Captain obligations 10 3.2 Notification and Reporting 10 3.3 Icebreaker contacts 10 3.4 Instructions for captains on ships receiving ice-breaking assistance 11 3.5 Instructions for vessels on lake Vänern and Göra Älv 12 3.6 Towing 12-14 3.7 Danger of icing 14-15 3.8 Sea rescue 15 3.9 Instructions for shipwrecked persons 15 4. Ice Classes and Requirements 4.1 Finnish-Swedish Ice Classes 16 4.2 Equivalance between Ice class notations 17-22 4.3 Swedish Ice Class for traffic on Lake Vänern 22 5. Ordinance and Regulations for Winter Navigation 5.1 General 23 5.2 Ordinance 23 5.3 Which vessels can count on State Icebreaker Assistance? 23-24 6. Weather- and Ice- Information 6.1 General about transmission 25 6.2 Radiotelephony 25 6.3 NAVTEX 25 Swedish coastradio (map) 26 6.4 Broadcasting 27 6.5 Telefax and radiofacsimile transmission 27-28 6.6 How to request for weather- and ice reports from vessels 28 6.7 Wind table 29 Weather forecast areas (map) 30 1 WINTER NAVIGATION 1. General information 1.1 Ice-breaking service The Government Ice-breaking service is managed by the Swedish Maritime Administration. The functions of ICE INFO and the Local Office of the Government Ice-breaking Service are, within the operating district, to obtain and pass information, requests and instructions concer-ning the ice-breaking service between the Board of the Service, interesting parties and perform any task imposed by the Board of the Ice-breaking Service. The state icebreakers are the ALE, ATLE, FREJ, ODEN and YMER. In addtion also the AHTS vessel THETIS acts as a state icebreaker when needed. The buoytender-vessel BALTICA and SCANDICA, other suitable vessels and municipal and private tugboats are chartered when necessary. The main function of the State ice-breaking is to break ice between open waters and water protected from sea ice, pack ice and similar ice obstacles (sea icebreaking). 1.2 The Executive Boards of Ice-breaking Services and Icebreakers Sweden Postal address: Swedish Maritime Administration, Ice-breaking Department 601 78 Norrköping Telephone: Switchboard (08.00-16.40) ..................................+46-(0)771 63 00 00 Director ...................+46-(0)10 478 47 57 Operational manager...............................................+46-(0)10 478 62 58 Operating centre ...............................................+46-(0)771 63 25 25 During icebreaking season a 24 hour duty system is in operation at the operating centre. Fax: +46-(0)11-10 31 00 E-mail: [email protected] Internet: www.sjofartsverket.se www.sjofartsverket.se/winternavigation Actual information: The unit will provide a brief account of the ice situation for the day, the operating areas of the icebreakers together with instructions for shipping and an updated ice chart at Swedish Maritime Administration homepage: www.sjofartsverket.se/winternavigation also on common web-page www.baltice.org Code letters and telephone-numbers for the Swedish icebreakers Icebreaker Callsign Telephone (GSM) E-mail VHF and MF Ale SBQP +46(0)31 - 33 44 952 [email protected] All icebreakers Atle SBPR +46(0)31 - 33 44 948 [email protected] Channel 16 Frej SBPT +46(0)31 - 33 44 940 [email protected] and 2332 kHz Oden SMLQ +46(0)31 - 33 45 511 [email protected] Ymer SDIA +46(0)31 - 33 44 944 [email protected] Thetis 5BMW4 +358 40 015 8279 [email protected] Baltica SJOY +46(0)10 - 478 57 00 [email protected] Scandia SKFZ +46(0)10 - 478 57 71 [email protected] ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Cover Photo: Icebreaker YMER, Photo: © Ove Nilsson Edition: 800 copies, Print: DanagårdLITHO, november 2018 WINTER NAVIGATION 2 Finland (authority) Postal address: Finnish Transport Infrastructure Agency, Winter Navigation Unit P.O. Box 33 FIN-00521 HELSINKI, FINLAND Telephone: Switchboard (08.00-16.15) ......................+358-(0)295 34 30 00 Operational number ......................+358-(0)504 71 48 50 Senior Maritime Officer (traffic restrictions) ...+358-(0)295 34 33 28 E-mail: [email protected] Internet: www.vayla.fi/winternavigation Code letters and telephone-numbers for the Finnish icebreakers Icebreaker Callsign Telephone (GSM) E-mail VHF and MF Urho OHMS +358(0)306 20 75 00 [email protected] All icebreakers Sisu OHMW +358(0)306 20 74 00 [email protected] Channel 16 Voima OHLW +358(0)306 20 76 50 [email protected] and 2332 kHz Fennica OJAD +358(0)306 20 77 00 [email protected] Nordica OJAE +358(0)306 20 78 00 [email protected] Otso OIRT +358(0)306 20 73 00 [email protected] Kontio OIRV +358(0)306 20 72 00 [email protected] Polaris OJQT +358(0)942 45 04 59 [email protected] Zeus OJHB +358(0)400 18 40 31 [email protected] Finland (icebreaker operations) Postal address: Arctia Ab Maringatan 9 00160 Helsinki, Finland Telephone: Operational management (24 h): .......................+358 46 876 7050 E-mail: [email protected] Denmark Postal address: Søværnskommandoen, Marinstaben Herningvej 30 DK-7470 Karup J, DENMARK Telephone: +45-72 85 00 00 +45-72 81 20 56 Fax: +45-89 43 34 27 E-mail: [email protected] Internet: https://forsvaret.dk/istjenesten Norway Postal address: Kystverket Sørøst Postboks 1502 NO-6025 ÅLESUND Telephone: +47-37 01 97 59 +47-417 62 255 Fax: +47-37 01 97 01 E-mail: [email protected] Internet: www.kystverket.no 3 WINTER NAVIGATION Estonia Postal address: Estonian Maritime Administration Winter Navigation Department Martin Kaarjärv (Head of ice-breaking) Lume 9, EE.104 16 TALLINN, ESTONIA Telephone: +372 620 57 07 Fax: +372 620 57 66 E-mail: [email protected] Internet: www.vta.ee Latvia Postal address: Free Port of Riga Authority Arturs Brokovskis-Vaivods Meldru iela 5a, LV-1015 RIGA, LATVIA Telephone: +371 670 82 000 E-mail: [email protected] Poland Postal address: Harbour Master Port of Gdynia Jacek Kaszube (Head of ice-breaking)) 10 Chrzanowskiego, 81-339 GDYNIA, POLAND Telephone: +48 (0)58 620 28 53 Fax: +48 (0)58 661 60 51 E-mail: [email protected] Germany Postal address: Federal Waterways and Shipping Agency Northern Region Office, Kiellinie 247 D-241 06 KIEL, DEUTSCHLAND Telephone: +49 431 3394 8160 Fax: +49 431 3394 6399 E-mail: [email protected] Internet: www.ast-nord.gdws.wsv.de Russia Postal address: Harbour Master Big Port of St. Petersburg Gapsalskaya Street 10 198035 ST. PETERSBURG, RUSSIA Telephone: +7 812 718 89 01 (information on ice-breaking) Fax: +7 812 327 40 20 E-mail: [email protected] Internet: www.pasp.ru WINTER NAVIGATION 4 1.3 Local Offices Luleå Anders Dahl Luleå pilotage area Strömörvägen 9 974 37 LULEÅ Phone: +46 (0)10 - 478 4958 Cell: +46 (0)702 - 23 29 56 E-mail: [email protected] Piteå Clas-Robert Johansson Piteå Hamn AB Box 716 941 28 PITEÅ Phone: +46 (0)911 - 23 21 32 Cell: +46 (0)705 - 93 10 34 E-mail: [email protected] Skellefteå Lars Widelund Skellefte hamn Järnvägsleden 81 932 33 SKELLEFTEHAMN Phone: +46 (0)910 - 73 63 38 Cell: +46 (0)768 - 23 51 10 E-mail: [email protected] Umeå Patrik Rudolfsson Kvarken Ports Umeå Hamn 913 32 HOLMSUND Phone: +46 (0)90 - 16 32 90 Cell: +46 (0)703 - 8 7 17 29 E-mail: [email protected] Örnsköldsvik Mikael Johansson (Harbour master) Örnsköldsviks Hamn & Logistik AB Järvedsleden 4 891 60 Örnsköldsvik Phone: +46 (0)660 - 787 14 Cell: +46 (0)706 - 32 46 15 E-mail: [email protected] Kramfors Anders Nilsson Gävle pilotage area Sundsvalls pilotstation 865 92 ALNÖ Phone: +46 (0)10 - 478 47 79 Cell: +46 (0)721 - 42 11 49 E-mail: [email protected] Sundsvall Mats Lundberg Sundsvalls Hamn AB Box 722 851 21 SUNDSVALL Cell: Cell: +46 (0)703 - 19 35 40 E-mail: [email protected] 5 WINTER NAVIGATION Iggesund Kenneth Larsson Iggesund Paperboard AB Skärnäs hamn och Terminalen 825 80 Iggesund Phone: +46 (0)650 - 284 88 Cell: +46 (0)702 - 03 67 61 E-mail: [email protected] Söderhamn-Gävle Dag Tedenby Gävle pilotage area 805 95 GÄVLE Phone: +46 (0)10 - 478 47 71 Cell: +46 (0)708 - 19 14 36 E-mail: [email protected] Stockholm Per Stenhammar Stockholms pilotage area Box 27808 115 93 STOCKHOLM Phone: +46 (0)10 - 478 48 95 Cell: +46 (0)709 - 71 83 01 E-mail: [email protected] Södertälje-Mälaren Susann Tolppola Södertälje pilotage area Slussgatan 11 151 71 SÖDERTÄLJE Phone: +46 (0)10 - 478 48 02 Cell: +46 (0)708 - 21 28 78 E-mail: [email protected] Oxelösund-Norrköping Jimmy Rosander Bråviken pilot Area Sandviksvägen 3 613 31 OXELÖSUND Phone: +46 (0)10 - 478 48 25 Cell: +46 (0)708 - 19 12 97 E-mail: [email protected] Västervik-Ölands södra udde Tommy Andersson inkl Gotland Kalmar pilotage area Bojgatan 4 392 31 KALMAR Phone: +46 (0)480 - 49 38 41 Cell: +46 (0)708 - 47 22 68 E-mail: [email protected] Karlskrona-Karlshamn Leif Svensson Karlshamns Hamn Box 8 374 21 KARLSHAMN Phone: +46 (0)454 - 30 50 24
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