Greenpeace’s vessel «Arctic Sunrise» has been released after nearly nine months of detention in Murmansk, following the organization’s demonstration against Arctic drilling in the Pechora Sea last fall.
Russia’s leading icebreaker yard, the Baltiysky Zavod, is more than two years behind schedule in the contruction of the country’s new generation diesel-engined icebreakers.
As the Svalbard coal company dismisses staff and pleads for crisis money, the Norwegian government announces that it will make a new whitepaper on the Arctic archipelago.
We need 222 billion rubles (€4.4 billion) for the implementation of our plans in the Arctic, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin said in the first meeting of Russia’s Arctic Commission.
As one of its cargo ships arrives in Sweden after the transcontinental voyage, shipping company Cosco says it migth boost shipments along the Arctic route.
