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What is the primary purpose of an ice class?

To determine whether the ship, when bound during the ice season for a port in the Baltic or other ice region, will be entitled to the assistance of government icebreakers. (In Finland and Sweden, icebreaker assistance is granted only to ships with an ice class fulfilling daily criteria.)

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