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It is the most powerful icebreaker ever built in Finland.
January 19, 2022
As the International Maritime Organization (IMO) sub-committee meeting on ship design (SDC 8) and construction got underway this week, a group of international NGOs is calling for the maritime industry to do more to reduce underwater noise disturbances to marine life.
January 18, 2022
The troublesome shipping on the Northern Sea Route continues into the new year. Almost three weeks after the world's most powerful icebreaker arrived in the Chukchi Sea, none of the four vessels stuck in the area have broken out of the ice.
January 17, 2022
Still unclear who will possibly pay for the 500 kilometers long railway from Karpogory in Arkhangelsk region to the not-yet-built port in Indiga on the eastern coast of the Barents Sea.
January 17, 2022
The giant nuclear-powered icebreaker now heads towards Murmansk to pick up supplies before starting to work along the Northern Sea Route.
January 13, 2022
The unique research station will conduct its first expedition this year, the country's natural resource minster says.
January 12, 2022
There is no redundant between the Arctic archipelago and mainland Norway after loss of power in the area where the fiberoptic cable follows the seabed down to a depth of 2,700 meters in the Greenland Sea.
January 09, 2022
The "Sibir" will add to the rapidly growing fleet of powerful icebreakers tasked to keep the Northern Sea Route open for year-round shipping.
December 25, 2021
Better to postpone than to cancel, say organizers of the pan-Arctic gathering in Tromsø, northern Norway.
December 21, 2021
From rain on Greenland’s ice sheet to the browning of the eastern Siberian tundra, climate change is continuing to transform the Arctic in dramatic ways, says the Arctic Report Card 2021 released on Tuesday by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
December 15, 2021
The design of the icebreaker is to be completed in 2025 and used for rescues alongside China’s “Polar Silk Road” trade route, as a part of the country’s grander Belt and Road Initiative.
December 10, 2021
The biting cold could impact Independence Day celebrations on Monday.
December 03, 2021
UN organization adopts voluntary measure with impacts for black carbon emissions in Arctic.
December 03, 2021
The Arctic Council, and international forum made up of the world’s eight northern countries, wrapped up their two-day meeting in Salekhard, Russia on Thursday.
December 03, 2021
Deputy head of the state nuclear company admits year-round shipments on the Northern Sea Route will hardly be possible without an additional number of super-powerful LK-60 icebreakers.
December 03, 2021
The new super-powerful "Arktika" is on the way to help out ships locked in sea-ice.
December 01, 2021
Exceptional cold is affecting northern Scandinavia and Russia’s Kola Peninsula with temperatures below -30°C.
November 28, 2021
Both the "Arktika" and "Sibir" have been on sea trials in the Gulf of Finland this week, while construction work on the "Ural", "Yakutia" and "Chukotka" continue according to schedule.
November 26, 2021
In an increasingly hostile political environment, Helsinki seeks to use its new presidency in the Barents Council to interact with Moscow
November 18, 2021
But some of the vessels will have to wait for at least one week before they are released from captivity in the remote Arctic sea-ice.
November 10, 2021
The country's quickly growing interest in the Northern Sea Route is leading to a reshuffle of regional lighthouses and navigation markers.
November 09, 2021
An early freeze has taken shippers by surprise and a big number of vessels are in danger of getting stuck in thick sea-ice.
November 08, 2021
In the face of slow transportation developments in the Arctic and the ongoing effects of the Covid-19 crisis, Russian ambitious transportation priorities and goals stay unwavering.
November 07, 2021
Following Disneynature’s upcoming film documenting the dramatic climate changes at Svalbard, families with children are now offered a high-class voyage to the Arctic archipelago.
November 06, 2021
The route from St. Petersburg to Bangladesh via Murmansk and Vladivostok is about 3,200 nautical miles longer than sailing the cargo via the Suez Canal. Even the route around Africa would have been faster.
November 03, 2021

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