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Revolutionary European Icebreaker Ship and Floating Laboratory

Designs are well underway for a first of a kind revolutionary ice breaking ship which will also double as a state of the art floating research laboratory. This is an exciting engineering and scientific project which leads to many questions about how the logistics of this type of collaborative European venture can be made to work
The ship which has been named the Aurora Boralis is due for assembly work to start in 2012

Russia has a strong reputation in shipbuilding for arduous conditions and has announced that it will be a partner in launching this state-of-the-art research vessel. Other European nations are expected to join the project soon.

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Thursday 6 December, 2007 11:12 PM

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