Operations in Sea Ice-Covered Waters

The goal of this initiative is to establish a network on Safe and Economic Operations in Seasonally Sea Ice-Covered Waters (OpSIce), a circum-Arctic network of expertise in northern Norway in order to promote exchange and cooperation between research and industry at regional, national and international scale. The network is intended to assist in knowledge transfer and the specification of key industrial demands, giving special attention to economic and safe operations.

OpSIce is supported by the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs from January 2014 until 2017.

Other related projects:

• Arktisk Maritim Klynge (AMK), a network of stakeholders in arctic shipping in northern Norway
• SARiNOR, a project on Search and Rescure in the high North
• Sea Ice Prediction Network (SIPN), aiming to compile and produce sea ice datasets relevant for sea ice prediction
• IRO-2, an ice prediction and route optimization project