Nunavik (ship)
| History | |
|---|---|
| Name: | Nunavik |
| Namesake: | Nunavik |
| Owner: | Fednav Group |
| Port of registry: |
Majuro,  Marshall Islands
|
| Ordered: | 31 July 2012 |
| Builder: | Japan Marine United Corporation, Tsu, Japan |
| Yard number: | 204 |
| Laid down: | 19 July 2013 |
| Launched: | 29 September 2013 |
| Completed: | 30 January 2014 |
| In service: | 2014– |
| Identification: | |
| Status: | In service |
| General characteristics | |
| Type: | Bulk carrier |
| Tonnage: | 22,622 GT 6,787 NT 27,997 DWT |
| Length: | 188.8 m (619 ft) |
| Beam: | 26.6 m (87 ft) |
| Draft: | 10.2 m (33 ft) |
| Depth: | 15.7 m (52 ft) |
| Ice class: | IACS Polar Class 4 DNV ICE-15 |
| Installed power: | MAN 7S70ME-C (22,100 kW) |
| Propulsion: | Single shaft; ducted controllable-pitch propeller |
| Speed: | 13 knots (24 km/h; 15 mph) 3 knots (5.6 km/h; 3.5 mph) in 1.5 m (4.9 ft) ice |
| Crew: | 20 |
Nunavik is an icebreaking bulk carrier owned and operated by the Canadian shipping company Fednav. She is used to transport copper and nickel from the Nunavik Nickel Project, making 7–8 round trips per year.
Nunavik is a sister ship to the 2006-built Umiak I.
In October 2012, Fednav announced that it had signed a contract with Japan Marine United Corporation for the construction of a new ice-strengthened bulk carrier at the Tsu shipyard in Tsu, Japan. Previously, the company already operated two similar vessels with independent icebreaking capability: 1978-built Arctic and 2006-built Umiak I.
The keel of the new vessel was launched at the Japanese shipyard on 19 July 2013 and she was launched only two months later on 29 September. Initially set for delivery in December 2013, the new vessel, Nunavik, was completed on 30 January 2014. She is named after Nunavik, the area compromising the northern third of the province of Quebec, Canada.
Several commenters have noted that while it took only couple of years to build Nunavik in Japan, the design and construction of the new polar icebreaker, CCGS John G. Diefenbaker, for the Canadian Coast Guard on a Canadian shipyard will eventually take more than a decade.
In 2014, Nunavik became the first cargo ship to make an unescorted voyage through the Northwest Passage. The vessel left Deception Bay, Canada, on 19 September and passed Point Barrow, Alaska, on 30 September. After clearing the Bering Strait, the vessel headed to Bayuquan, China, with a cargo of nickel ore. According to Fednav, the voyage reduced greenhouse gas emissions by 1,300 tonnes when compared to a similar voyage through the Panama Canal. The Northwest Passage route is forty percent shorter than the Panama Canal route.
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