Iceclass 2012 - The International Conference on Ice Class Ships

Recent years have seen a large increase in the number of vessels operating in polar and low temperature environments. This includes a broad range of vessel type; tankers, bulkcarries, LNG, container ships, multi-purpose ships, cruise ships and offshore support vessels. Compliance with just the basic ice class rules and regulations may not be sufficient for safe and effective ship operation in these environments.
There are vast oil and gas resources around Siberia in the Barents and Kara sea as well as in the Alaskan Chukchi Sea. The receding ice in the Northern Sea Route and North West Passage offers new marine transportation options between the two major oceans and Europe, North America and Asia.
Vessels of any kind operating in ice-infested waters and low temperatures are exposed to a number of unique demands. Operation in first- and multi-year ice adds uncommon loads and forces to hull, propulsion system and appendages and calls for suitable built. Extremely low temperatures, bad weather and low visibility affect the ship and the crew in a multitude of ways, including materials, machinery, operational process and human factors.
Conference Content
RINA invites classifications societies, shipyards, operators, surveyors and designers and those with an interest in the full of possibilities operation in ice, to submit papers on:
ICE / Polar Classification
Structural design and equipment selection
Materials, welding and coatings
Propulsion and machinery systems
Cargo & ship systems adaptation
Ice accretion and de-icing arrangements
Winterization
Safety & environmental systems consideration
Crew consideration / human factors
Rescue and evacuation in remote and extreme conditions
New Arctic shipping routes
Submit an Abstract or Register Your Interest in the Conference
Please click here to register your interest in further information about the Iceclass Ships Conference.
The copies of the final completed paper are generally reqired one month before the conference and copies of the authors Powerpoint presentations one week before the conference.