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Fincantieri will for the first time construct in Italy a ship planned from Rolls-Royce
It is an oceanographic unit of search ordered from Istituto Norvegese di Ricerca Marina
March 27, 2015
The groups Rolls-Royce and Fincantieri have signed a contract for an integrated system of propulsion for a new oceanographic ship of search ordered from Istituto Norvegese di Ricerca Marina (IMR). The ship will be used in order to lead marine environmental researches in the Arctic and Antartico.
The ship will be constructed in the Fincantieri yard di Riva Trigoso-Muggiano, before the completion of some details in Norway. It is the first time that Fincantieri constructs in Italy a ship planned from Rolls-Royce. The delivery is previewed in 2017.
The oceanographic unit is based on a project 395 Rolls-Royce NVC Polar with the detailed planning of Fincantieri. The Rolls-Royce system comprises main motor generators with propulsion electrical worker, an azimutal propulsive range of and propellers of special maneuver running.
New ship FF Kronprins Haakon, named in honor of the heir to the throne of Norway, is planned in order to operate in onerous or extreme ice conditions. It will be equipped in order to complete a range wide of search activity, as the monitoring of the ittica population, the metrologici studies, the sampling and the mapping of the seabed. The Institute of Search Marina Norvegese and Istituto Norvegese Polare works as advisory of the Norwegian authorities, contributing to the maintenance of the standards of management of Norwegian waters and the polar areas in order to assure that these remain one of the pristine areas better which preserved to the world.
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