Aker Arctic’s icebreaker design selected for Gazprom Neft’s Novy Port project

The new icebreakers are a further development of the Aker ARC 130 icebreaker concept originally developed for the Finnish Transport Agency. The new design, Aker ARC 130 A, will utilise a similar propulsion concept consisting of three azimuth thrusters – two in the stern and one in the bow of the vessel. The propulsion power and ice strengthening have been increased according to the operational requirements of the arctic seas. The vessel is designed to break 2m-thick level ice with 30cm snow cover in both ahead and astern directions, operate in thick consolidated brash ice, and have excellent manoeuvrability in all ice conditions, Aker Arctic said.
The icebreakers of Aker ARC 130 A design are about 122m long, 25m wide and have design draught of 8m.
They are equipped with a diesel-electric power plant, and the combined propulsion power of the three azimuth thrusters is 21.5 MW. The icebreakers will be classified by the Russian Maritime Register of Shipping and their ice class will be Icebreaker8.