Ice-class cruise ship

VESSEL CLASS

КМ Arc6 [2] АUT1-ICS EPP OMBO ECO-S GFS

PURPOSE

The ship is intended to cruise in Arctic and Antarctic seas as well as to perform expedition cruise in other seas including seas in tropics. Due to weather and climate factors the ship is supposed to operate seasonally.

Spring-summer:

- cruises from Murmansk to Spitsbergen, Novaya Zemlya, Norway, Iceland, 7-14 days in duration;

- cruises from Reykjavik (Iceland) to Jan Mayen Island and Greenland coastline, 7-14 days in duration;

- cruise from Murmansk to Anchorage or Petropavlovsk-Kamchatski along the Northern Sea Route, 35 days in duration;

Autumn-winter:

- cruises from Punta Arenas (Chile) to the Falkland Islands and to Antarctica, 7-14 days in duration;

In addition, it is possible to cruise in the passages from Arctic to Antarctic and in the opposite direction.

DESIGN FEATURES

Passenger cruise ship with a dual-fuel power plant operated on LNG and low-sulphur diesel fuel, with two main engine rooms (MER 1 and MER 2) and two auxiliary engine rooms (AER 1 and AER ) located aft, with a raked stem, an ice horn, an excessive freeboard, with double bottom from the forepeak bulkhead to the afterpeak bulkhead, with double sides in way of the ice belt, with a well-developed five-tier superstructure, with a wheelhouse in the fore, with bow thrusters and aft rudder propellers.

PASSENGER ACCOMMODATION

Suites with veranda, pcs. ................................................................6
Outside staterooms with extended area balconies, pcs. ................4
Outside staterooms with balconies, pcs. ....................................102
Outside staterooms without balconies, pcs. .................................31
Staterooms with facilities for disabled, pcs. ..................................2

PUBLIC SPACES

A conference room (a movie hall with a bar, a theatre, a lecture hall), the biggest restaurant, 2 restaurants a la carte, a grill room, a beauty salon, a library, a smoking room, an observation room, a lounge area, a wellness centre, a complex of saunas and baths, an indoor swimming pool, an outdoor swimming pool, open promenade decks, an area for an icerink, a health and fitness centre, an enclosed observation deck, shops, sightseeing boats and fold-out boarding platforms, diving equipment.

HIGH ICE CLASS

Due to ice strengthening of Arc6 class ship, she can navigate in Arctic in summer and autumn period in open-pack first-year ice up to 1.3 m in thickness, and in winter and spring period in open-pack first-year ice up to 1.1 m in thickness.

NON-RESTRICTED NAVIGATION AREA AND LONG CRUISING RANGE

Since the navigation area of the ship is non-restricted, she can operate in Arctic and Antarctic as well as perform expedition cruises anywhere in the World.

Due to the cruising range of up to 10.000 miles the ship can perform long-lasting cruises in areas without infrastructure (Arctica, Antarctica, the Northern Sea Route).