Ship&Offshore | Issue 06/2017
Research on Arctic shipping safety
SEDNA | A EUR 6.5 million three-year research project, funded by the EU’s Horizon 2020 programme, has been set up to examine safety and efficiency in Arctic shipping. The research project SEDNA comes at a time of rapidly increasing Arctic navigation as northern sea routes become navigable for longer periods each year. SEDNA will tackle the resulting challenges in ship design and operation in three principal ways. One, it will develop the ‘Safe Arctic Bridge’ to focus on navigational requirements including ice, weather and a lack of chart data. Two, anti-icing systems for ships’ superstructures will be researched and developed, and three, SEDNA will develop a risk-based design framework for ship safety, including the definition of hazard scenarios, their likelihood and possible consequences.