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Safewin

 

SAFETY OF WINTER NAVIGATION IN DYNAMIC ICE - is an EU FP7 project dealing with the clarification of the factors that contributes to the sensitivity of ships getting stopped in dynamic ice. The target of this research project is to develop background and methods that can be used in predicting the compressive ice and that can be used operationally. The operational use includes both an efficient deployment of icebreakers as well as route selection of ships. 


Project aims: 

  • Develop methods to predict the compression in ice operationally
  • Develop quantities that can be applied to describing the ship progress and loading in ice and that can be obtained from ice dynamics predictions                                             
  • Verify the accuracy and applicability of the ship-scale quantities obtained from meso-scale ice dynamics models
  • Develop an operational procedure to describe ice compression to be broad-casted to shipping
  • Apply the developed ice compression forecasting procedure to Arctic waters for oil exploration/production facilities


Project partners:

  • Helsinki University of Technology, Finland (project coordinator)
  • as2con - alveus ltd, Croatia
  • Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute, Russia
  • Finnish Institute of Marine Research, Finland
  • Finnish Maritime Administration, Finland
  • ILS Oy, Finland
  • Knutsen OAS Shipping AS, Norway
  • Stena Rederi AB, Sweden
  • Swedish Maritime Administration, Sweden
  • Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute, Sweden
  • Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia
More information about the project at www.safewin.org