Tag: Developments

  • Article / 28.4.2025
    R&D guides ship design and operations

    The primary goal is to support reliable winter navigation in the Baltic Sea and ensure the security of supply.

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  • Article / 11.3.2025
    Twenty years of icebreaking expertise

    Over the past two decades, Aker Arctic has designed and developed proven concepts for 59 built vessels in our highly…

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  • Article / 15.7.2024
    R&D: Energy saving devices evaluated in ice operations

    Different types of energy saving devices (ESD) can be used to improve the propulsive efficiency of a ship. With benefits…

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  • Article / 4.3.2024
    Offshore wind farms need robust foundations

    Aker Arctic’s core expertise is to produce and develop services and products that enable sustainable and safe operations in ice-covered…

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  • Article / 17.7.2023
    Simulation method explored for brash ice tests

    To further secure the reliability of ice-model-test-based performance predictions into the future, Aker Arctic works continuously to add understanding to…

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  • Article / 4.4.2023
    Hybrid propulsion gains popularity

    Two azimuthing propulsion units flanking a shaft line in the middle has become an increasingly popular design alternative to explore…

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  • Article / 27.10.2022
    Four concept designs to decarbonize icebreaking

    Four icebreaker concepts reveal how hydrogen, ammonia, batteries and methanol reshape decarbonization at sea.

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  • Article / 4.10.2022
    Nonlinear analysis tool benefits high ice-class vessels

    Nonlinear structural analysis lets designers know exactly where and how a structure fails — and build lighter, safer ships as…

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