THE final stages in the construction of Ponant’s Le Commandant-Charcot have begun, with the ship arriving in Saint-Nazaire to be fitted with Azipod propulsion systems. Le Commandant-Charcot’s arrival in France will also see her hull painted, before she returns to the shipyard in Norway for a final fitout. Delivery is...
THE final stages in the construction of Ponant’s Le Commandant-Charcot have begun, with the ship arriving in Saint-Nazaire to be fitted with Azipod propulsion systems.
Le Commandant-Charcot’s arrival in France will also see her hull painted, before she returns to the shipyard in Norway for a final fitout.
Delivery is scheduled for 2021, ahead of her inaugural polar voyages in the Bellingshausen Sea in Antarctica, and three expeditions to the North Pole, each departing Longyearbyen in Jul and Aug.
Offered aboard Le Commandant-Charcot will be hot air ballooning, kayaking, hiking, a dog-sled ride, ice fishing, snowmobile exploration and polar diving.
Equipped with 135 staterooms, Le Commandant-Charcot will be the world’s first polar exploration vessel operating on a hybrid electric LNG system.
Ponant will also make Le Commandant-Charcot available to the scientific community, fitting it out with infrastructure such as laboratories & staterooms, as well as other materials, to offer a platform for observation, research and analysis of the water, air, ice and biodiversity in the polar regions to which the ship travels.
