Arctia
Oy is
Finnish state-owned company
A state-owned enterprise (SOE) is a Government, government entity which is established or nationalised by the ''national government'' or ''provincial government'' by an executive order or an act of legislation in order to earn Profit (econom ...
responsible for operating a Finnish
icebreaker fleet. The company was established as Arctia Shipping Oy in 2010 when Finnish icebreaking services were incorporated. The name of the parent company was changed to Arctia Oy on 18 January 2016. It has following subsidiaries: Arctia Icebreaking Oy (conventional icebreakers), Arctia Offshore Oy (multipurpose icebreakers), Arctia Karhu Oy (port icebreakers and towing), and Arctia Management Services Oy. Arctia has a floating office next to the icebreaker base at
Katajanokka in
Helsinki
Helsinki ( or ; ; sv, Helsingfors, ) is the Capital city, capital, primate city, primate, and List of cities and towns in Finland, most populous city of Finland. Located on the shore of the Gulf of Finland, it is the seat of the region of U ...
.
Arctia provides
icebreaking
An icebreaker is a special-purpose ship or boat designed to move and navigate through ice-covered waters, and provide safe waterways for other boats and ships. Although the term usually refers to ice-breaking ships, it may also refer to smaller ...
services for
Finnish Transport Agency during winter as well as for private companies in the offshore gas- and oilfields.
In 2013 Antti Viirtala, the chairman of the company resigned because of scandal related to the sponsorships of his own curling club.
Arctia Shipping boss out in the cold after sponsorship scandal
25 October 2013
History
Greenpeace case
In 2012 a group of Greenpeace
Greenpeace is an independent global campaigning network, founded in Canada in 1971 by Irving Stowe and Dorothy Stowe, immigrant environmental activists from the United States. Greenpeace states its goal is to "ensure the ability of the Earth t ...
activists got onboard icebreakers Fennica and Nordica and demanded that the company stops helping Royal Dutch Shell
Shell plc is a British multinational oil and gas company headquartered in London, England. Shell is a public limited company with a primary listing on the London Stock Exchange (LSE) and secondary listings on Euronext Amsterdam and the New Yo ...
to drill oil in the Arctic Ocean. Arctia Shipping decided to make a criminal complaint in spite of the will of Minister Heidi Hautala
Heidi Anneli Hautala (born 14 November 1955) is a Finnish politician and Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from Finland. She is a member of the Green League, part of the European Green Party.
She is currently a Member of the European Parl ...
who was responsible for the corporate governance of Arctia Shipping. Hautala's office threatened to fire the management in case that they disobliged.
In October 2013 Hautala decided to resign when the case became public.
Fleet
File:Voima_2011.jpg, ''Voima'' (built 1954; refit 1978–1979)
File:Urho_heading_back_to_sea.jpg, ''Urho'' (built 1975)
File:Helsinki_2009_PD_0227.JPG, ''Sisu'' (built 1976)
File:Finnish icebreaker Otso 2012-01-18.jpg, ''Otso'' (built 1986)
File:Kontio off Kemi 2012.jpg, ''Kontio'' (built 1987)
File:Icebreaker Fennica.jpg, ''Fennica'' (built 1993)
File:MSV Nordica 2009.jpg, ''Nordica'' (built 1994)
File:Polaris_bollardpull_2016-04-26.jpg, ''Polaris'' (built 2016)
See also
* Finnish Transport Agency
References
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Government-owned companies of Finland
Shipping companies of Finland
Companies based in Helsinki
Finnish companies established in 2010
Transport companies established in 2010