Fincantieri will construct an oceanographic ship for Norway



Today to the Fram Museum of Oslo, to the presence of the Norwegian minister of the Peach and the Coastal Transactions, Elisabeth Aspaker, the navalmeccanico group Italian Fincantieri and the Institute of Marine Research (IMR), agency of the oceanographic and ittico search of the Norwegian government, has signed a contract for the construction of a ship oceanographic icebreaker destined to operate in polar waters. The project, promoted from the Norwegian government, has a total value of about 175 million euros.

With 9.000 tons of tonnage, a length of wineskin 100 meters and a width of 21, the new ship will be able to accommodate 55 people on board, between investigators, students and crew, in 38 cabins and will be prepared following the elevated standards of comfort of the fleeting ships. To bow it will have a hangar that will be able to accommodate two helicopters and will be endowed of a complex instrumentation in a position to inquiring the morphology and geology of the seabeds.

Fincantieri has emphasized that the ship between will be advanced icebreaker to the world, and will constitute a garrison to elevated technological content for the study of the marine atmosphere. It will be constructed following criteria that diminish the environmental impact and reduce the irradiated noise underwater so as to allow studies on marine fish and mammals and will be able to carry out own activities of oceanographic and hydrographical search in any theater of operations.

The new unit, whose design is cured by Rolls Royce Marine, will take the sea in the second half of 2016 and will be totally operating beginning from the beginning of 2017.

The Institute of Marine Research (IMR), that it has center to Bergen and it counts 700 dependent, directly possesses or work on behalf of other Norwegian institutes, various ships from search with which it on a global scale carries out missions also in collaboration with the main world-wide oceanographic agencies.

The shipowner of the new ship will be the Norwegian Polar Institute, on behalf of the Norwegian government. The ship, that it will carry out missions on a global scale and it will be employed in order to study the modalities and the consequences of the climatic change in the Arctic atmosphere, will call Kronprins Haakon, in honor of the heir to the throne of Norway, and will be constructed in Italy in the integrated yard of Riva Trigoso-Muggiano di Fincantieri, before to conclude the preparation and the tests in sea in Norway in the plants of VARD, society of the Fincantieri group.

"The acquisition of this new ship from search - Elisabeth Aspaker has declared, Norwegian minister of the Peach and the Coastal Transactions - will contribute to the acquaintance of the ecosystems is in antarctic the Arctic regions that. Draft of an instrument of remarkable importance not only for our Country but for all international the scientific community".

"This - Tore Nepstad has confirmed, managing director of the Institute of Marine Research - is an important step for all the Norwegian agencies that take care of search in the northern and southern hemisphere. We must still face many challenges in our battle in order to comprise the nature. The effects of the climatic change are one of the search areas in which we need a technologically advanced unit as the Kronprins Haakon".

The managing director of Fincantieri, Giuseppe Bono, has expressed the satisfaction of the Italian group for this order, "acquired - he has emphasized - from a customer of great importance and that he demands high qualitative and operating standards". "With this ship - it has added - we will ahead make an ulterior step in which supported the technological frontier and of the innovation also from the more and more tightened collaboration with the VARD colleagues".