Norway’s new polar research vessel will be built by a yard in the hometown of Christopher Columbus.
RV Kronprins Haakon” will be the long-awaited state-of-the-art research vessel to be based in Tromsø. On Friday, the contract was signed with the Italian shipbuilding group Fincantieri at the Fram museum in Oslo. “Fram” was the vessel used by Fridtjof Nansen when he first time tried to reach the North Pole.
The Institute of Marine Research is in charge of the project and Rolls Royce Marine has designed the new vessel. The Norwegian Polar Institute will manage the vessel.”
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