Marine Platforms

Following on from the COMNAP Icebreaker Workshop 2013 and the vessel poster session at COMNAP AGM XXX (2018), to demonstrate that national Antarctic programs are considering and incorporating fuel savings, noise reduction, and other environmental operations technologies into their new vessel builds, COMNAP aimed to showcase the range of new research vessel builds for polar waters.

The outcomes of the project included the publication of the information in the peer-reviewed journal Polar Record. The open access article is available here.

The Executive Summary from the 23rd International Ice Charting Working Group (IICWG) Meeting, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 26-30 September 2022 is available here.
CCCAMLR, COMNAP, & IAATO made a joint presentation to the meeting in ragrds to vessel patterns and trends in a typical Antarctic season.
More information on the IICWG can be found at https://nsidc.org/noaa/iicwg.