Concept ships may have the power to fire the imagination and invite comment, but very few ever progress beyond the drawing board and into production.rnThat fate seemed certain to have befallen one of the most innovative ship designs of the late 1990s - the oblique icebreaker. With more than a decade having passed since its unveiling by what was then Kvaerner Masa-Yards Arctic Technology Centre - now better known as Aker Arctic Technology, which is a division of STX Finland - the oblique icebreaker looked destined never to progress beyond the model tank tests carried out in 1997.
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