Xue Long 2 is China’s very first locally generated icebreaker (Image: MacGregor)
Two Chinese polar icebreakers, Xue Long (Snow Dragon) and also Xue Long 2, are collaborating for the very first time throughout China’s 36th Antarctic exploration,
Xue Long 2 is China’s very first locally constructed icebreaker. It was collectively developed by Aker Arctic Technology in Helsinki, Finland and also the Marine Design and also Research Institute of China (MARIC) in Shanghai,China Construction started in 2016 at the China State Shipbuilding Corporation’s Jiangnan Shipyard in Shanghai, with the vessel being supplied to the Polar Research Institute of China (PRIC) in July 2019.
A MacGregor task group has actually been associated with the Xue Long 2 task from the extremely beginning back in 2011, functioning collaboratively with the PRIC task group and also MARIC to establish various technological remedies called for to allow deck handling devices to run efficiently at temperature levels of minus 45 levels centigrade.
Xue Long 2 is a Polar Class 3 vessel, gauging 122.5 meters long and also 22.3 meters large with a variation of 13,996 tonnes and also a navigating ability of 20,000 nm. She can puncturing ice while progressing or in reverse, with this ability and also progressed installed devices substantially enhancing polar area study abilities.
MacGregor’s deck managing service and also range of supply for Xue Long 2 consists of 3 overseas cranes, the study devices deck managing systems, oceanographic winches, deck equipment and also hatch covers.
Spare components and also solution sustain will certainly additionally be supplied to optimize the icebreaker’s functional schedule.
