Korea's first icebreaker

"Araon"

The "Araon" was constructed at the Hanjin Heavy Industries and Construction Yeongdo shipyard in Busan. "Araon", which symbolizes a ship sailing across the world’s oceans, is a 110 m long and 19 m wide research vessel with a speed of up to 16 knots. The icebreaker, with 23 crew members and 60 researchers on board, is equipped with nearly 60 different types of state-of-the-art research equipment and a helicopter. As per Hanjin statement the vessel is capable of breaking ice of one meter at 3 knots and sailing almost 20,000 nautical miles for 70 days with just one fuel supply.

With the launch of the Korean-made ARAON, the research activities and construction of polar research base will be facilitated. Above all, since Korea will now be able to conquer future marine territory and carry out an in-depth research on the development of polar resources with new and modern infrastructure in the polar regions, it is expected that Korea’s status in polar research will be greatly improved.

"Araon" will be delivered in late September of this year.

The first Korean-made icebreaking research vessel will in future explore and research the pole and is currently sailing on sea trials.

 

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