Ship&Offshore | Ausgabe 06/2025
Future-proof
The day before this issue of Ship&Offshore went to press, I had the honour of boarding the research vessel Polarstern in Bremenhaven. The icebreaker, which belongs to the German Federal Government, had just returned to its home port after a 20-week Antarctic season. After around six weeks of routine maintenance and repair work at the Lloyd Werft shipyard, the research vessel was scheduled to depart for the Arctic again at the end of May. This ship has many impressive features, one of which is certainly that the old lady has been in service since 1982....