SCHIFFKO design for new Eurpoean icebreaker

摘要

Waertsilae's Hamburg-based ship design and marine consultancy subsidiary, SCHIFFKO GmbH, has been awarded a contract from the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research of Bremer-haven, Germany, to design the revolutionary new European research icebreaker Aurora Borealis, which will have a deep-sea drilling capability. The contract comprises the initial design concept, general arrangement planning, and full tender documentation of the vessel intended for research in ice and open water conditions in the fields of geology, geophysics, oceanography, biology, glaciology, bathymetry, meteorology, and atmosphere physics.