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89 relations: ABB Group, Aker Arctic, Alaska, Alternating current, Arctech Helsinki Shipyard, Arctia (company), Atle-class icebreaker, Azimuth thruster, Azipod, Baltic Sea, Bollard pull, Bothnian Bay, Call for bids, Classification society, Crichton-Vulcan, Cycloconverter, Diesel–electric transmission, Economizer, Engine order telegraph, Estonia, European Union, Fincantieri, Finland, Finnish Declaration of Independence, Finnish pollution control vessel Louhi, Finnish Transport Agency, Finnish war reparations to the Soviet Union, Frej (icebreaker), Germany, Green League, Heidi Hautala, Helsinki, Hietalahti shipyard, Ice class, Ice tank, Icebreaker, ILS (company), Ilta-Sanomat, International Association of Classification Societies, International Maritime Organization, Joystick, Katajanokka, Klaipėda, Kontio (icebreaker), Left Alliance (Finland), Liquefied natural gas, Lithuania, Lloyd Werft Wismar, Lloyd's Register, Marine diesel oil, ..., Maritime call sign, Merja Kyllönen, MSV Botnica, MSV Fennica, MSV Nordica, Murtaja (1890 icebreaker), National Coalition Party, Norway, Osmo Soininvaara, Otso (icebreaker), Paula Risikko, Platform supply vessel, Polar Class, Polaris, Pori, Pressure ridge (ice), Rauma Marine Constructions, Rauma shipyard, Rauma, Finland, Request for tender, Runner-up, Shell Oil Company, Ship's wheel, Short list, Sisu (1938 icebreaker), Soviet Union, Straight engine, Straight-eight engine, Straight-nine engine, STX Finland, Sulphur Emission Control Area, Surety, Trans-European Transport Networks, Turku, Turva, V engine, V12 engine, Voima (1952 icebreaker), Wärtsilä. Expand index (39 more) »
ABB Group
ABB (ASEA Brown Boveri) is a Swedish-Swiss multinational corporation headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland, operating mainly in robotics, power, heavy electrical equipments, and automation technology areas.
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Aker Arctic
Aker Arctic Technology Oy (often shortened to Aker Arctic) is a Finnish engineering company that operates an ice model test basin in Helsinki.
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Alaska
Alaska (Alax̂sxax̂) is a U.S. state located in the northwest extremity of North America.
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Alternating current
Alternating current (AC) is an electric current which periodically reverses direction, in contrast to direct current (DC) which flows only in one direction.
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Arctech Helsinki Shipyard
Arctech Helsinki Shipyard is a shipbuilding company in Helsinki, Finland.
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Arctia (company)
Arctia Oy is Finnish state-owned company responsible for operating a Finnish icebreaker fleet.
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Atle-class icebreaker
The Atle class comprises five icebreakers built for the Swedish and Finnish Maritime Administrations.
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Azimuth thruster
An azimuth thruster is a configuration of marine propellers placed in pods that can be rotated to any horizontal angle (azimuth), making a rudder unnecessary.
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Azipod
Azipod is an electric podded azimuth thruster produced by ABB Group.
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Baltic Sea
The Baltic Sea is a sea of the Atlantic Ocean, enclosed by Scandinavia, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Russia, Poland, Germany and the North and Central European Plain.
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Bollard pull
Bollard pull is a conventional measure of the pulling (or towing) power of a watercraft.
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Bothnian Bay
The Bothnian Bay or Bay of Bothnia is the northernmost part of the Gulf of Bothnia, which is in turn the northern part of the Baltic Sea.
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Call for bids
A call for bids, call for tenders, or invitation to tender (ITT, often called tender for short) is a special procedure for generating competing offers from different bidders looking to obtain an award of business activity in works, supply, or service contracts.
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Classification society
A classification society (however called) is a non-governmental organization that establishes and maintains technical standards for the construction and operation of ships and offshore structures.
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Crichton-Vulcan
Crichton-Vulcan is an abandoned shipyard in Turku, Finland, that once formed the cornerstone of the Finnish shipbuilding industry.
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Cycloconverter
A cycloconverter (CCV) or a cycloinverter converts a constant voltage, constant frequency AC waveform to another AC waveform of a lower frequency by synthesizing the output waveform from segments of the AC supply without an intermediate DC link (and). There are two main types of CCVs, circulating current type or blocking mode type, most commercial high power products being of the blocking mode type.
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Diesel–electric transmission
A diesel–electric transmission, or diesel–electric powertrain, is used by a number of vehicle and ship types for providing locomotion.
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Economizer
Economizers (US and Oxford spelling), or economisers (UK), are mechanical devices intended to reduce energy consumption, or to perform useful function such as preheating a fluid.
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Engine order telegraph
An engine order telegraph or E.O.T., also referred to as a chadburn, is a communications device used on a ship (or submarine) for the pilot on the bridge to order engineers in the engine room to power the vessel at a certain desired speed.
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Estonia
Estonia (Eesti), officially the Republic of Estonia (Eesti Vabariik), is a sovereign state in Northern Europe.
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European Union
The European Union (EU) is a political and economic union of EUnum member states that are located primarily in Europe.
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Fincantieri
No description.
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Finland
Finland (Suomi; Finland), officially the Republic of Finland is a country in Northern Europe bordering the Baltic Sea, Gulf of Bothnia, and Gulf of Finland, between Norway to the north, Sweden to the northwest, and Russia to the east.
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Finnish Declaration of Independence
The Finnish Declaration of Independence (Suomen itsenäisyysjulistus; Finlands självständighetsförklaring; Провозглашение независимости Финляндии) was adopted by the Parliament of Finland on 6 December 1917.
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Finnish pollution control vessel Louhi
Louhi (pennant number 999) is a Finnish multipurpose oil and chemical spill response vessel owned by the Finnish Environment Institute (SYKE), but manned and operated by the Finnish Navy.
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Finnish Transport Agency
The Finnish Transport Agency (Liikennevirasto, Trafikverket), shortened to FTA, is a Finnish government agency responsible for the maintenance of Finland's road, rail, and waterway systems.
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Finnish war reparations to the Soviet Union
War reparations of Finland to the Soviet Union were originally worth US$300,000,000 at 1938 prices.
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Frej (icebreaker)
Frej is the third, named after the Norse god Freyr.
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Germany
Germany (Deutschland), officially the Federal Republic of Germany (Bundesrepublik Deutschland), is a sovereign state in central-western Europe.
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Green League
The Green League (VIHR, Vihreä liitto, Gröna förbundet), shortened to the Greens, is a green political party in Finland.
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Heidi Hautala
Heidi Anneli Hautala (born 14 November 1955) is a Finnish politician and Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from Finland.
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Helsinki
Helsinki (or;; Helsingfors) is the capital city and most populous municipality of Finland.
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Hietalahti shipyard
Hietalahti shipyard (also known as Helsinki New Shipyard, Helsingin uusi telakka) is a shipyard in Hietalahti, in downtown Helsinki, Finland.
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Ice class
Ice class refers to a notation assigned by a classification society or a national authority to denote the additional level of strengthening as well as other arrangements that enable a ship to navigate through sea ice.
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Ice tank
An ice tank is a ship model basin whose purpose is to provide a physical modeling environment for the interaction of ship, structures, or sea floor with both ice and water.
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Icebreaker
An icebreaker is a special-purpose ship or boat designed to move and navigate through ice-covered waters, and provide safe waterways for other boats and ships.
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ILS (company)
ILS Oy (formerly Insinööritoimisto Lehtonen & Siirilä Oy) is a Finnish engineering company that specializes in winter navigation and the design and development of ice-class ships.
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Ilta-Sanomat
Ilta-Sanomat (Finnish for the evening news) is one of Finland's two prominent tabloid size evening newspaper and the second largest paper in the country.
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International Association of Classification Societies
The International Association of Classification Societies (IACS) is a technically based non-governmental organization that currently consists of twelve member marine classification societies.
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International Maritime Organization
The International Maritime Organization (IMO), known as the Inter-Governmental Maritime Consultative Organization (IMCO) until 1982, is a specialised agency of the United Nations responsible for regulating shipping.
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Joystick
A joystick is an input device consisting of a stick that pivots on a base and reports its angle or direction to the device it is controlling.
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Katajanokka
Katajanokka (Skatudden) is a neighbourhood of Helsinki, Finland, with around 4000 inhabitants in 2005.
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Klaipėda
Klaipėda (Samogitian name: Klaipieda, Polish name: Kłajpeda, German name: Memel), is a city in Lithuania on the Baltic Sea coast.
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Kontio (icebreaker)
Kontio is a Finnish state-owned icebreaker.
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Left Alliance (Finland)
The Left Alliance (Vasemmistoliitto, Vänsterförbundet, vas.) is a left-wing political party in Finland.
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Liquefied natural gas
Liquefied natural gas (LNG) is natural gas (predominantly methane, CH4, with some mixture of ethane C2H6) that has been converted to liquid form for ease and safety of non-pressurized storage or transport.
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Lithuania
Lithuania (Lietuva), officially the Republic of Lithuania (Lietuvos Respublika), is a country in the Baltic region of northern-eastern Europe.
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Lloyd Werft Wismar
Lloyd Werft Wismar (former VEB Mathias-Thesen-Werft Wismar, Aker MTW Werft, Wadan Yards MTW, Nordic Yards Wismar) is a German shipbuilding company, headquartered in Wismar.
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Lloyd's Register
Lloyd's Register Group Limited (LR) is a technical and business services organisation and a maritime classification society, wholly owned by the Lloyd’s Register Foundation, a UK charity dedicated to research and education in science and engineering.
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Marine diesel oil
Marine Diesel Oil (MDO) is a type of fuel oil and is a blend of gasoil and heavy fuel oil, with less gasoil than intermediate fuel oil used in the maritime field.
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Maritime call sign
Maritime call signs are call signs assigned as unique identifiers to ships and boats.
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Merja Kyllönen
Merja Kyllönen (born 25 January 1977) is a Finnish politician and Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from Finland.
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MSV Botnica
MSV Botnica is a multipurpose offshore support vessel and icebreaker built by Finnyards in Rauma, Finland, in 1998.
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MSV Fennica
MSV Fennica is a Finnish multipurpose icebreaker and platform supply vessel.
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MSV Nordica
MSV Nordica is a Finnish multipurpose icebreaker and platform supply vessel.
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Murtaja (1890 icebreaker)
Murtaja was a Finnish state-owned steam-powered icebreaker.
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National Coalition Party
The National Coalition Party (NCP; Kansallinen Kokoomus; Kok.; Samlingspartiet; Saml.) is a centre-right political party in Finland considered to be liberal, and conservative, and liberal-conservative.
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Norway
Norway (Norwegian: (Bokmål) or (Nynorsk); Norga), officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a unitary sovereign state whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula plus the remote island of Jan Mayen and the archipelago of Svalbard.
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Osmo Soininvaara
Osmo Heikki Kristian Soininvaara (born 2 September 1951 in Helsinki) is a Finnish politician and writer.
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Otso (icebreaker)
Otso is a Finnish state-owned icebreaker.
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Paula Risikko
Paula Risikko (born 4 June 1960, Ylihärmä) is a Finnish politician and the current Speaker of the Parliament.
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Platform supply vessel
A Platform supply vessel (often abbreviated as PSV) is a ship specially designed to supply offshore oil and gas platforms.
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Polar Class
Polar Class (PC) refers to the ice class assigned to a ship by a classification society based on the Unified Requirements for Polar Class Ships developed by the International Association of Classification Societies (IACS).
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Polaris
Polaris, designated Alpha Ursae Minoris (Ursae Minoris, abbreviated Alpha UMi, UMi), commonly the North Star or Pole Star, is the brightest star in the constellation of Ursa Minor.
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Pori
Pori (Björneborg; Arctopolis) is a city and municipality on the west coast of Finland.
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Pressure ridge (ice)
A pressure ridge develops in an ice cover as a result of a stress regime established within the plane of the ice.
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Rauma Marine Constructions
Rauma Marine Constructions (RMC) is a Finnish shipbuilding company based in Rauma, Finland.
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Rauma shipyard
Rauma shipyard (Rauman telakka) is a shipyard in Rauma, Finland.
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Rauma, Finland
Rauma (Raumo) is a town and municipality of ca.
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Request for tender
A request for tenders (RFT) is a formal, structured invitation to suppliers to submit a bid to supply products or services.
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Runner-up
No description.
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Shell Oil Company
Shell Oil Company is the United States-based wholly owned subsidiary of Royal Dutch Shell, transnational corporation "oil major" of Anglo-Dutch origins, which is amongst the largest oil companies in the world.
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Ship's wheel
A ship's wheel or boat's wheel is a device used aboard a water vessel to change that vessel's course.
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Short list
A short list or shortlist is a list of candidates for a job, prize, award, political position, etc., that has been reduced from a longer list of candidates (sometimes via intermediate lists known as "long lists").
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Sisu (1938 icebreaker)
Sisu was a Finnish state-owned icebreaker.
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Soviet Union
The Soviet Union, officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) was a socialist state in Eurasia that existed from 1922 to 1991.
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Straight engine
The straight or inline engine is an internal-combustion engine with all cylinders aligned in one row and having no offset.
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Straight-eight engine
The straight-eight engine or inline-eight engine is an eight-cylinder internal combustion engine with all eight cylinders mounted in a straight line along the crankcase.
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Straight-nine engine
A straight-nine engine or inline-nine engine is a straight engine with nine cylinders.
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STX Finland
STX Finland Oy, formerly Aker Yards Oy, was a Finnish shipbuilding company operating three shipyards in Finland, in Turku, Helsinki and Rauma, employing some 2,500 people.
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Sulphur Emission Control Area
Sulphur Emission Control Areas (SECAs), or Emission Control Areas (ECAs), are sea areas in which stricter controls were established to minimize airborne emissions from ships as defined by Annex VI of the 1997 MARPOL Protocol.
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Surety
In finance, a surety, surety bond or guaranty involves a promise by one party to assume responsibility for the debt obligation of a borrower if that borrower defaults.
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Trans-European Transport Networks
The Trans-European Transport Networks (TEN-T) are a planned set of road, rail, air and water transport networks in the European Union.
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Turku
Turku (Åbo) is a city on the southwest coast of Finland at the mouth of the Aura River, in the region of Southwest Finland.
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Turva
Turva is a Finnish offshore patrol vessel.
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V engine
A V engine, or Vee engine is a common configuration for an internal combustion engine.
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V12 engine
A V12 engine is a V engine with 12 cylinders mounted on the crankcase in two banks of six cylinders each, usually but not always at a 60° angle to each other, with all 12 pistons driving a common crankshaft.
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Voima (1952 icebreaker)
Voima is a Finnish state-owned icebreaker.
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Wärtsilä
Wärtsilä is a Finnish corporation which manufactures and services power sources and other equipment in the marine and energy markets.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polaris_(icebreaker)
