Ice navigation vessel

Cargo ship navigating in ice, Gulf of Bothnia
Icebreaking bow of the tanker Timofey Guzhenko

Ice navigation vessel or Ice-strengthened vessel is a class of ships specially prepared for independent ice navigation in the waters of the polar seas and for following icebreakers in especially difficult ice conditions.[1][2] Various registration authorities assign ice classes to vessels based on their technical characteristics.[3][4] Due to this, ice navigation vessels are usually referred to as ice-class vessels without indicating which class they belong to, but indicating the type of vessel (e.g. ice-class tanker, ice-class cargo ship etc).[5]

  1. ^ "СПГ танкеры: перевозка сжиженного природного газа в Арктике | // LNGas.ru" (in Russian). 15 January 2012. Archived from the original on 2017-12-31. Retrieved 2017-12-30.
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference myvessellogs was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ Unified Requirements for Polar Class ships Archived 2012-06-20 at the Wayback Machine. International Association of Classification Societies (IACS), April 2016. Retrieved 2017-03-11.
  4. ^ The Ice Navigation and Seamanship Handbook, BIMCO and Witherby Publishing Group, p. 185–212
  5. ^ BySubhodeep Ghosh (January 1, 2021). "Understanding Design of Ice Class Ships // Naval Architecture". Marine Insight - The Maritime Industry Guide. Retrieved 2023-03-15.