Railotech news & articles

Article / 07.10.2026

Level ice is the standard icebreaker benchmark – but uniform level ice is rare. Railotech on what else we should be measuring.

Article / 07.09.2026

Sweden's new icebreaker: 70 per cent lower emissions, triple-azimuthing propulsion, biomethanol-ready – designed by Railotech.

Article / 28.06.2026

Canada's first heavy polar icebreaker in 50 years. Railotech led all ice and cold climate design – from hull form to hybrid…

Article / 02.06.2026

When azimuthing propulsion was first proposed for ice, the industry called it unrealistic. Railotech spent decades proving…

Article / 28.05.2026

Railotech drives the research shaping how ice-class rules are written – from basin tests to live fieldwork on the Bothnian Bay.

Article / 19.05.2026

Endurance icebreaker design lessons. Explore how structural analysis, ice-load mechanics and warm-ice data inform modern…

To better reflect our global authority in ice engineering and the Finnish…

The U.S. Coast Guard has awarded contracts for the construction of six Arctic…

Ice propulsion contracts for polar icebreakers: see Railotech’s scope for…

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