Steerprop has been chosen to provide superior ice-classed bow thrusters to the Canadian Coast Guard’s new Polar Icebreaker. The ship will probably be designed and constructed by Seaspan Shipyards as a part of Canada’s Nationwide Shipbuilding Technique.
Steerprop will equip the Polar Icebreaker with two arctic tunnel thrusters specifically designed to satisfy probably the most demanding ice circumstances, even with out the safety of tunnel grids. This will probably be Steerprop’s first supply of this distinctive ice-strengthened tunnel thruster. The supply scope additionally features a bridge management system and an offline oil filtering system.
The multi-mission Polar Icebreaker has a displacement of 27,876 tonnes. Will probably be 150 meters lengthy, 28 meters extensive, and can accommodate as much as 100 individuals. With an ice class Polar Class 2 (PC2) score, the second highest ice class in accordance with IACS, it is going to be capable of function in harder ice circumstances (together with in multi-year ice) and for longer intervals than some other Canadian icebreaker.
“The Polar Icebreaker will probably be an extremely advanced ship, designed to function within the Arctic’s ice-covered waters. It’s going to play a crucial function in enabling the Canadian Coast Guard to transit and shield the Arctic shoreline. A dependable and environment friendly propulsion system is due to this fact important, and the Steerprop answer has been chosen to ship this. Moreover, the vessel will assist maintain a year-round presence in Canada’s North, responding to emergencies and supporting native communities, arctic sovereignty, and high-Arctic science,” says Russell Davison, Vice President of Coast Guard Applications at Seaspan.
“The arctic circumstances require excessive reliability – reliability is at all times an important factor. Our R&D has at all times taken this type of final dependability to be the muse of every thing we do. The propulsion system should be capable to carry out, day in and time out,” says Juho Rekola, Director, Gross sales and Undertaking Administration at Steerprop. “For demanding arctic circumstances, the thrusters have to be constructed for the aim making an allowance for extreme ice circumstances and the operational space. This, together with our huge expertise of delivering propulsion techniques to ice-classed vessels, has resulted in a really optimized answer for this Polar Icebreaker.”
Steerprop delivered its first propulsion models for an icebreaker in 2008.
