Steel is a Finnish pusher vessel owned and operated by ESL Shipping. It is part of the Finnpusku integrated tug and barge system developed in the 1980s by Finnlines, a Finnish shipping company that al
Pusher Steel without a barge in the port of Raahe.
Rautaruukki, the sister vessel of Steel, and Kalla outside Luleå, Sweden.
Soviet crane ship Stanislav Yudin rightening the capsized Finn-Baltic on 27 January 1991.
Damaged Finn-Baltic after rightening in Hanko on 2 February 1991.
Finnish–Swedish ice class is an ice class assigned to a vessel operating in first-year ice in the Baltic Sea and calling at Finnish or Swedish ports. Ships are divided into six ice classes based on re
Steel (pusher)
…net tonnage 469. Steel is classified by Det Norske Veritas with a class notation of +1A1 ICE-1A+ Pusher and Pusher/Barge Unit E0. It has the highest Finnish-Swedish ice class, 1A Super, which means that the pusher is designed to operate in difficult ice conditions both alone and when coupled to a barge mainly without icebreaker…
Product tanker Georg Essberger waiting for icebreaker assistance outside Loviisa in the Gulf of Finland. Its ice class, 1A, fulfilled the minimum requirements of the traffic restrictions at that time and the ship was escorted to port.
Cruiseferries sailing on regular routes between Finland, Sweden and Estonia are usually built to the highest Finnish–Swedish ice class, 1A Super. Due to their high engine power, the cruiseferries do not normally require icebreaker assistance.