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The following description is from the Fednav site.

Steve

Built in 2006, Umiak I, a 31,500-tonne icebreaking bulk carrier, the most powerful ever of its kind, is employed in moving 360,000 tonnes of nickel concentrates a year in 12 voyages from Inco Ltd.'s Voisey's Bay mine in northern Labrador to its smelters in Sudbury, Ontario and Thompson, Manitoba.

Arctic Class IV - allows travel through 1.2 metres ( over 3 ft ) of ice at 3 knots without any damage. thats impressive

Both Fednav and the same class, see

http://www.fednav.com/anglais/fleet_all.html

[quote="vince"]1. are these ships both in the same company (2) also are they rated the same for ice. (3) I know the Arctic is a Arctic Class IV done back in 1985 at Port Weller. (4)The Umiak is currently in the St Lawrence River as of tonight (Friday) not sure where see is coming or going too . thanks for any info[/quote]

1 Yes, both are owned by Fednav out of Montreal.
2. Yes, both are rated for ASPPR AC4 eq (I have no idea what that means)
3. The Arctic was built as part of a consortium between Upper lakes shipping, FedNav, and the Canadian Government. I'm pretty sure fednav bought them out however.
4. The Umiak I is on route to Quebec City to unload nickel concentrate that it loaded in baffin mines(?). It is on a straight route from Quebec City to Mines in the Arctic and return trip. It takes fuel, and mining supplies up, and Nickel concentrate down.

If you are interested and have an hour to kill you can click on this link: http://watch.discoverychannel.ca/#clip524726
it's a direct link to see the Umiak I on discovery channel's "Mighty Ships".

are these ships both in the same company also are they rated the same for ice . I know the Arctic is a Arctic Class IV done back in 1985 at Port Weller. The Umiak is currently in the St Lawrence River as of tonight (Friday) not sure where see is coming or going too . thanks for any info