Arctia Oy is

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state-owned company responsible for operating a Finnish

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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

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. Arctia provides

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services for

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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 activists got onboard icebreakers Fennica and Nordica and demanded that the company stops helping

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to drill oil in the Arctic Ocean. Arctia Shipping decided to make a criminal complaint in spite of the will of Minister

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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)

References

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