我国第一艘极地考察船极地号 中国首艘民营极地科考破冰船建造项目日前启动

中国首艘民营极地科考破冰船建造项目日前启动  

A Chinese pany last Thursday announced plans to build an icebreaker
which will be China's first privately owned polar research vessel.
The icebreaker "Hadal X" will be built by Dutch shipyard Damen Group and owned and operated by Shanghai-based Rainbowfish Ocean Technology.
Construction will start in 2018 and the icebreaker will be put into operation in 2021.
建造将于2018年正式开始，并将于2021年投入运营使用。
The vessel will be 95 meters long and 17 meters wide
with a displacement of 5
000 tonnes
according to the preliminary design.
The icebreaker
which will be operated by a crew of 75
will have a cruising radius of 8
000 nautical miles (about 15
000 km) and will carry a helicopter and submersibles.
"Xuelong"
or Dragon Snow
is currently China's only polar icebreaker. It was bought from a Ukrainian pany in 1993. The government began construction of its first Chinese-made polar icebreaker in 2016.