Research and Logistics
News
News from aboard will be available in the Polarstern app. Below you can download the reports additionally as weekly reports.
PS 147/1 |02-03 April 2025
PS 147/1 |04-09 April 2025
PS 147/1 |10-14 April 2025
FS Polarstern on tour
| Port of registry | Bremerhaven |
|---|---|
| Length | 118 metres |
| Width | 25 metres |
| Max. draught | 11.20 metres |
| Max. displacement | 17,277 tons |
| Empty weight | 12,012 tons |
| Commissioning AWI | 1982 |
| Engine | 4 x KHD RBV 8M540 |
| Engine power | 19,198 PS (four engines) |
| Range | 19,000 nautical miles / 80 days |
| Max. speed | 16 knots |
| Operation area | Everywhere including pack ice zone |
| Crew | 44 |
| Days on sea per year | on average approx. 305 |
| Shipyard | Nobiskrug, Rendsburg and Howaldtswerke - Deutsche Werft Kiel AG, Germany |
| Scientists per day / long term sailing | none / 53 |
Polarstern is not only a research vessel but also a gigantic measuring instrument. Data are constantly collected aboard, some of them are also sent consecutively to different receivers. Further information about Polarstern can be found on the following pages:
AWI
Cruise Reports (data overview)
Extern
(Kopie 11)
News
Polarstern back in home port
Polarstern returned to her home port of Bremerhaven: After a good 20 weeks in the Antarctic season, the research vessel moored at the pier in the overseas harbour. Over the next six weeks, routine maintenance and repair work will take place at the Lloyd Werft shipyard.
Özdemir visits shipyard for the new Polarstern
Federal Minister of Research Cem Özdemir visited the thyssenkrupp Marine Systems shipyard in Wismar. There, he was informed about the current state of construction regarding the new research icebreaker Polarstern for the AWI.
Student training on Polarstern’s transit to the Antarctic
This weekend, the research vessel Polarstern is scheduled to depart from her homeport in Bremerhaven. In addition to the crew, 33 scientific expedition participants will be on board – primarily young researchers whose job it will be to familiarise themselves with using echosounders to survey the ocean floor.