Polar Navigation
Advice & Guidance
SERVICES
Benoit Hebert is offering to share his experience and to assist you with your project or navigation in polar areas, through :
- Advice and support for the preparation of your polar navigation.
- Pilotage in polar areas ( Ice Pilot ) for any vessel type and tonnage.
- Assistance and technical follow up in polar ship design and building.
PROFILE
Benoit Hebert holds a Master Class 1 Certificate and a Nautical Institute Ice Navigator Level 2 Certificate.
After serving for a few years as Master on MV L'ASTROLABE, Polar Supply Vessel chartered by the French Polar Institute (IPEV), Benoit Hebert is now in command of MV AURORA AUSTRALIS, Polar Research and Supply Vessel owned by P&O Maritime Services and chartered by the AUSTRALIAN ANTARCTIC DIVISION (AAD).
CLIENTS
Polar Institutes
Shipping Companies
Cruise Brokers
Polar Expeditions
Media
Ship design, Shipyards
Nautical Course and Training Institutes
Polar navigation remains hazardous.
It requires specific skills and knowledge.
A modern Polar Vessel must have special characteristics and features that must comply with the Polar Code.
That is why you will need the expertise of a professional.
Testimony
" Working with Benoit was a great pleasure : motivation, extensive hands-on experience and determination are the main skills that allowed us to successfully accomplish our missions, often in harsh ice and weather conditions.
To summarize: a valuable guide in the pack ice and a very good seafarer to be recommended for any polar expedition."
Patrice Godon, Manager Polar Logistics IPEV
"Expertise, professionalism and a real team spirit are the qualities I can expect from Benoit when we work together"
Shaun Deshommes,
Operations Manager P&O Maritime Services
