Tom Ekegren⛴️

Arctic Segment Director, Steerprop Ltd // Expert in icebreakers, high ice class ships and Polar ship operations.

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Steerprop has secured contracts to provide azimuth propulsion and tunnel thrusters for six 🇨🇦 Canadian Coast Guard lcebreaking Multi Purpose Vessels 🚢 . Read more 👇

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Please read my update on LI: https://t.co/dkhq3Uxgj5

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@icenav57 Thank you so much Duke!

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@TEkegren Thank you Tom Ekegren! 😊👍

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I will be proud to be joining this stellar team at Steerprop, which has developed such outstanding products and made them available to the world icebreaker fleet and beyond.

[Steerprop @SteerpropLtd]

We are pleased to announce the latest addition to the Steerprop team: Tom Ekegren, Master Mariner and Executive MBA will start as Arctic Segment Director in our company. Welcome, Tom!

Read more: https://t.co/r4j61lbV3i

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Onboard #Arctia #Icebreaker Polaris today. Explaining icebreaker operations to @ABaerbock, Germany’s Minister of Foreign Affairs. Photo (c) Photothek | Thomas Koehler.

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Announcement: the official start of winter ❄️ is today on 11th of December at 07:30 UTC as #Icebreaker Otso departs from #Helsinki as first of the season to commence assisting shipping in #Finland.

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After a staggering 172 of #icebreaking operations since the 9th of December, #icebreaker #Otso arrives back in #Helsinki today. The #ice-winter was long for this remarkable ship ⛴. For Otso this was the longest season in history since 1985.

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Fifth for the season and first of the new year, #Icebreaker #Polaris today turns on the 🔵 blue light, indicating a vessel actively engaged in ice breaking activities. #Arctia #Winternavigation #IceClass

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Snow falling today when #Icebreaker #Urho departs as #4 for the season. 4/8 icebreakers now in operation before new year. More than any year since 2002. #Arctia #Winternavigation #Finland

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#Icebreaker Voima is departing today from #Helsinki and will be breaking ice in the Eastern Gulf of Finland serving mostly the ports of #Loviisa, #Kotka and #Hamina. May the Voima be with you! #Arctia #Winternavigation

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Even powerful ice going vessels often need to be towed by the #icebreaker in the #BayOfBothnia. Today I/B #Otso performed the first assistance towing in season of a merchant ship to a #Finnish port. #Arctia #Winternavigation #supplychain

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There is hardly anything more beautiful than an #Icebreaker departing for active ops. I/B #Kontio today departing from #Helsinki to the #BayOfBothnia as second for the season.

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Here we go!

#Icebreaker #OTSO departs today fm #Helsinki for active #icebreaking operations in the #BayOfBothnia. This marks the start of the 132nd icebreaking season in #Finland. #Arctia #Arctic #winter

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@looksouth @icenav57 @ArctiaLtd Again short answer: although there may be some speed or other restrictions to multi year ice as with all ships, both in Arctic and Antarctic, bow propulsion can and at times is used in polar areas, and they are quite beneficial in the Baltic Sea operations.

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@ArctiaLtd is dry docking #icebreakers three at a time. Right and center the oldest and newest (Voima, Polaris) of our fleet and the PC4 ice class I/B Otso left. Picture: Atctia/Sampo Tammiala #arctic #ship #maritime #shipping

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@looksouth @icenav57 @ArctiaLtd In short: the props BOTH in the bow and stern make operating in ice more effective, it increases ridge penetration capability, helps breaking out of ice channel, adds to maneuverability (in ice) etc. Are made to take heavy beating of ice. We ram them full speed in ridged ice.

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#Arctia is one of the most active and capable operators of #icebreakers in the world. As a demonstration of that, here are some key indicators from the completed winter icebreaking season 2021 in the Baltic Sea. #arctic #SeaIce #snowhow

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Jäänmurtokausi 2020-2021 päättyi 15.5. Jäänmurtajille kertyi kuluneen kauden aikana yhteensä 573,4 operointipäivää. Kiitos @Vaylavirasto, @Ilmatieteenlaitos, @Fintraffic VTS-keskukset, @finnpilot, varustamot ja muut yhteistyökumppanit hyvin sujuneesta kaudesta. #talvimerenkulku

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The pilot of the Sniffer Buoy continues in the archipelago off the west coast of Finland. The Sniffer Buoy pilots are part of the Intelligent Sea project, which is a EU co-funded development project that @Arctia Meritaito, Port of Naantali and @StockholmsHamn are carrying out.