Aker Arctic
| Aker Arctic Technology Inc.
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| legal form | Inc. |
| founding | 2005 |
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Helsinki , Finland
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| Branch | Development services |
| Website | akerarctic.fi |
Aker Arctic Technology is a Finnish engineering service provider . The company provides development, consulting and testing services for ships used in arctic waters, such as ice breakers , but also other maritime technology. The world's only privately owned test center for ice water is operated in Helsinki. According to Aker Arctic, or its predecessor organizations, developed around 60% of all global icebreakers.
Aker Arctic's origins lie in an icebreaker test center run by Wärtsilä in 1969, the “Wärtsilä Icebreaking Model Basin”. This was opened as a result of a cooperation with Esso to develop and test the hull of the icebreaker Manhattan . The test center was subsequently continued as part of the Wärtsilä Marine division . In the 1980s the name "Wärtsilä Arctic Research Center (WARC)" was adopted. After the bankruptcy of the Wärtsilä Marine division, this division was taken over together with the “WARC” by the Masa Yards company and the “WARC” was renamed “MARC”. In the mid-1990s, Masa was taken over by Kværner . In 2005, the test center finally became independent and henceforth operated as Aker Arctic. In 2013, the state-owned investment company Finnish Industry Investment took over the majority of the company's shares. The other co-owners are the Finnish subsidiary of ABB and Aker Solutions .
Aker Arctic was involved in the development of the Otso , the Urho class and the Aker ACS 650 type. Aker Arctic, or its predecessors WARC and MARC, are responsible for several innovations in marine technology. This includes, for example, the so-called “double acting ship” principle. Ships of this type are able to break ice barriers in reverse and have a second bridge that points aft.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Aker Arctic: About Us.Retrieved November 14, 2018
- ↑ Aker Arctic: History accessed November 14, 2018
- ↑ Aker Arctic: 40 years of ice model testing ( memento of October 22, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) accessed on August 22, 2019
- ↑ Aker Arctic: 50 years of ice model testing, accessed August 22, 2019
- ↑ Finnish Industry Investment: Key Events, accessed November 14, 2018