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.
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.
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.
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.
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).
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.