The agreement includes comprehensive lifecycle planning, long-term maintenance support, and technical services tailored to each vessel's operational profile.
Thanks to their large loading capacity, the vessel takes longer cables on board in a single piece and bridges longer distances with as few subsea cable connections as possible.
The 25th scientific expedition is currently working at the Ukrainian polar station Akademik Vernadsky, and during all these years women had spent the winter there only a few times. In 1997-1998, four women scientists spent the winter as part of the second Antarctic expedition, but later this right was granted exclusively to men. It took more than 20 years for gender policy to change and the long-standing taboo to be finally broken…
The Antarctic Akademik Vernadsky station celebrates an important anniversary - 25 years since the day when the owner country changed. On February 6, 1996, the Union Jack was lowered at this Antarctic station and the Ukrainian flag was raised for the first time.