Cel The ice cover of the Baltic Sea Motorway varies considerably from year to year. The northern parts freeze every winter. In a hard ice winter it freezes completely. Despite climate change, hard ice winters occasionally occur in the Baltic Sea.Even the current icebreaker fleet available in the Baltic Sea is incapable of providing a satisfactory level of service in a hard ice winter. The combination of growing traffic volumes and hard ice winter will mean serious difficulties for industrial and commercial transports.Some of the current icebreaker fleet will reach the end of its lifespan in the 2010s. It is evident that replacement investments will not yield a satisfactory level of service in hard ice winter conditions. Considering the growing traffic volumes, a satisfactory level cannot be reached even in an average ice winter. A large oil tanker, for instance, requires simultaneous assistance from two traditional icebreakers that together are capable of breaking a sufficiently wide channel through the ice.The objective of the proposal is to find out what benefits can be attained in the level of service of icebreaking assistance, in logistics and especially in oil transports, and with regard to environ-mental emissions and risks, bya) adopting the new technical solutions, and/orb) utilising the new type of agreement systemThe new technical solutions may be the innovations that are alone capable of breaking a suffi-cient wide channel also for overwide merchant vessels, e.g. oil tankers. The technical solutions have already completed but not introduced.The new agreement system to be developed would be based on the utilization of icebreaking capability of independently ice-going merchant vessels. It is important that jointly accepted rules could be enforced for cases where the capacity of conventional icebreakers is not sufficient. Dziedzina nauki natural sciencesearth and related environmental sciencesatmospheric sciencesclimatologyclimatic changes Słowa kluczowe Double Acting ice-going technology icebreaker icebreaking assistance level of service the Baltic Sea Motorway Program(-y) FP7-TRANSPORT - Specific Programme "Cooperation": Transport (including Aeronautics) Temat(-y) SST.2008.5.2.1. - Innovative product concepts SST.2008.5.2.2. - Competitive transport operations Zaproszenie do składania wniosków FP7-SST-2008-RTD-1 Zobacz inne projekty w ramach tego zaproszenia System finansowania CP-FP - Small or medium-scale focused research project Koordynator TEKNOLOGIAN TUTKIMUSKESKUS VTT Wkład UE € 350 694,00 Adres TEKNIIKANTIE 4 A 02044 VTT ESPOO Finlandia Zobacz na mapie Rodzaj działalności Research Organisations Kontakt administracyjny Arto Nokelainen (Mr.) Linki Kontakt z organizacją Opens in new window Strona internetowa Opens in new window Koszt całkowity Brak danych Uczestnicy (3) Sortuj alfabetycznie Sortuj według wkładu UE Rozwiń wszystko Zwiń wszystko Hama Investeeringud OU Estonia Wkład UE € 56 181,00 Adres Kristeni 4 13516 TALLINN Zobacz na mapie Rodzaj działalności Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Kontakt administracyjny Tönis Segerkrantz (Mr.) Linki Kontakt z organizacją Opens in new window Koszt całkowity Brak danych TRANSPORT & MOBILITY LEUVEN NV Belgia Wkład UE € 88 500,00 Adres DIESTSESTEENWEG 57 3010 Leuven Zobacz na mapie Region Vlaams Gewest Prov. Vlaams-Brabant Arr. Leuven Rodzaj działalności Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Kontakt administracyjny Veerle Vranckx (Ms.) Linki Kontakt z organizacją Opens in new window Strona internetowa Opens in new window Koszt całkowity Brak danych AKER ARCTIC TECHNOLOGY OY Finlandia Wkład UE € 45 620,00 Adres Merenkulkijankatu 6 00980 Helsinki Zobacz na mapie Region Manner-Suomi Helsinki-Uusimaa Helsinki-Uusimaa Rodzaj działalności Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Kontakt administracyjny Reko-Antti Suojanen (Mr.) Linki Kontakt z organizacją Opens in new window Strona internetowa Opens in new window Koszt całkowity Brak danych