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.
Secretary-General of the International Maritime Organization Koji Sekimizu departs on a 5-day Arctic sea voyage with a Russian nuclear icebreaker as part of a fact-finding mission to the region.
KARA SEA: Only blue sea in sight for Jan-Gunnar Winther, Head of the Norwegian Polar Institute, as he sails across the very same position where Fridtjof Nansen’s voyage sailed into severe ice conditions in August 1913.
KOLGUYEV: Russia has produced oil for hundreds of millions on this island in the Barents Sea, but the local Nenets people have not seen much of the income. Today, they were visited by the Nansen Memorial Expedition.
WHITE SEA: The first full day at sea for the Nansen Memorial Expedition was a great mixture of exploring the ocean on the outer deck and learning the history given in lectures on the inside.
ARKHANGELSK: Nothing’s like a farewell party in Russia. So also when the Pomor Capital says “bon voyage” for the Nansen Memorial Expedition that now sails towards Siberia.
We are now able to offer commercial trans-shipments along the Northern Sea Route for up to six month of the year, leader of Russia’s biggest shipping company confirms.
After a warm July the extent of sea ice large parts of the Northern Sea Route is below average and vessels are sailing parts of the route without icebreaker escort.
ARKHANGELSK: A group of Norwegian, Russian researchers, business people and officials sail out from the White Sea Tuesday towards the Northern Sea Route to mark the anniversary of the August 1913 expedition of Fridtjof Nansen to Siberia.
All areas located to the north of the Arctic Circle must be defined as “Arctic” and get special privileges, Murmansk Governor Marina Kovtun highlights in a letter to the federal government.
When the Russian nuclear-powered «50 Years of Victory» reached the North Pole late on Tuesday evening, it was the one hundredth time a surface vessel visited the top of the world.
Shipping through the melting Arctic looks to be increasing fivefold this summer compared to 2012. 270 vessels have so far received permits to sail along the Northern Sea Route which connects East Asia to Europe via the waters off of Russia’s northern coast.
