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To Muggiano the oceanographic ship is launched icebreaker Kronprins Haakon
It will be delivered within the end of this year
February 28, 2017
Today in the plant of Muggiano (La Spezia) of the Fincantieri group the Kronprins Haakon is launched, the oceanographic ship icebreaker that the Italian navalmeccanico group is constructing for the Norwegian government. To conclusion of the phase of preparation the ship will be delivered within the end of this year.
The shipowner of the ship, that it takes the name from the heir to the throne of Norway, will be the Norwegian Polar Institute, on behalf of the Norwegian government, while to use the unit they will be, besides the same institute, also the Institute of Marine Research (IMR), agency of the oceanographic and ittico search of the Norwegian government and the University of Tromsø.
Kronprins Haakon, destined to operate in polar waters, between will be advanced icebreaker to the world and will constitute a garrison to elevated technological content for the study of the marine atmosphere. With about 9.000 tons of tonnage, a length of 100 meters and a width of 21, the unit will be able to accommodate on board in 38 cabins, 55 people, between investigators, students and crew 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.
The ship, whose functional project is cured by Rolls- Royce Marine, will have a cruise speed of 15 knots, and will be able to be left over independently through thick ice until a meter and will be characterized by which requisitioned details of noiselessness in order not to disturb the marine atmosphere. The ship in fact is 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 environmental context.
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Today in the plant of Muggiano (La Spezia) of the Fincantieri group the Kronprins Haakon is launched, the oceanographic ship icebreaker that the Italian navalmeccanico group is constructing for the Norwegian government. To conclusion of the phase of preparation the ship will be delivered within the end of this year.
- Via Raffaele Paolucci 17r/19r - 16129 Genoa - ITALY
