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Five years after Damen Shipyards Group began construction, the new Antarctic Supply & Research Vessel (ASRV) Nuyina for the Australian government has arrived at its home port of Hobart in Tasmania. Bakker Sliedrecht supplied the flexible electric propulsion for the special vessel, enabling the Nuyina to sail both electrically and in hybrid modus and break through the Antarctic ice at…
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Australia will host a French polar patrol ship on its annual summer resupply mission to support research in the Antarctic. French Antarctic resupply ship L’Astrolabe will arrive in Henderson, Western Australia from August 30 to late October to conduct essential maintenance at Henderson before continuing on its journey to the Southern Ocean and Antarctic waters. L’Astrolabe, which is crewed by…
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November 9, 2020 (Google Translation) – On October 17, 2020, the polar patrol vessel L’Astrolabe set sail from Saint-Paul Bay to begin transit to Hobart in Tasmania, the building’s usual logistical stopover before its operations to the French scientific base of Dumont d’Urville in Terre Adélie . Crew B, in charge of the building for the start of the 2020-2021…
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