The features of ship control, equipped with azimuth propulsion in the ice conditions of navigation
The article describes ways of managing transport vessel during independent voyage in the Arctic seas with the use of rudder-propeller complex of the type "Azipod". in the implementation of safe and effective year-round independent navigation in various ice conditions on a route Murmansk - Dudinka and Arkhangelsk - Dudinka the features of the control movement of the carrier when performing complex maneuvers, specifically due to the prevailing ice conditions. Under consideration, the ways and methods of traffic control transport vessel ice class as front and rear swing, which is characteristic only for vessels equipped with a propeller-steering complex type "Azipod". Emphasized the advantage of control with the use of rudder-propeller complex of the type "Azipod". Proposed and considered ways to control the flow of movement in the drifting ice, floating in the landfast ice and the ice channel of the landfast ice, when performing mooring operations in ice conditions of the Yenisei river.