Ship&Offshore | Issue 04/2025
Partners to develop and build new polar icebreaker
Polarstern 2 | German companies, Elomatic Maritime Technologies GmbH and thyssenkrupp Marine Systems AG (TKMS) have signed a contract to design and build a new icebreaking polar research vessel. Polarstern 2 is to be built at the TKMS shipyard in Wismar and will replace the existing Polarstern in 2030. TKMS was awarded the public tender for construction of the new vessel in December. It was the result of two years of cooperation between the company and Elomatic in developing design of the vessel....