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BUSINESS Business Canada Featured • Zone 3 

2019 saw increase in commercial shipping through Northwest Passage

Levon Sevunts, Radio Canada International
Posted: Thursday, December 12, 2019 at 15:06
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2019 marked a busy shipping season in the Canadian Arctic with 27 ships making a full transit through the Northwest

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Canada Countries ENVIRONMENT Environment General Highlights 

Sea ice blocking shipment of materials into Iqaluit, northeastern Canada

CBC News
Posted: Tuesday, July 23, 2019 at 16:36
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Large chunks of sea ice floating in Frobisher Bay are holding up the transport of construction materials into Iqaluit, in

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BUSINESS Business Canada Countries Featured General Highlights 

Ottawa business races to fill orders after grocery store fire in Iqaluit, Arctic Canada

Matthew Kupfer, CBC News
Posted: Friday, November 9, 2018 at 10:19
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An Ottawa company that ships goods to Nunavut, in Canada’s east-Arctic, says orders have come pouring in as word of

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A freight train in Norilsk, Russia. (iStock)
BUSINESS Business Featured General Highlights Russia 

Russia’s Gazprom orders LNG-propelled trains for Arctic railway

Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Wednesday, May 30, 2018 at 16:20
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They will be environmentally friendly and far cheaper to use, the company says. It is the Sinara Transport Machines, a

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BUSINESS Business Featured General Highlights Russia 

Coal exports help Murmansk railway beat cargo record

Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Friday, May 25, 2018 at 12:00
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A total of 1,120 wagons were unloaded in one day. Most of it was coal. The 18th May was a

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BUSINESS Business Featured Highlights Uncategorized USA 

Alaskan airport 5th in world for air cargo

Zachariah Hughes, Alaska Public Media
Posted: Monday, April 16, 2018 at 12:43 — Last Updated: Monday, April 16, 2018 at 12:44
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Ted Stevens International Airport in Anchorage is the fifth busiest hub for air cargo in the world. According to a

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The nuclear-powered icebreaker 50 Let Pobedy (50 Years of Victory) at the North Pole in 2013. Here, it brought the Olympic Flame to the North Pole for the first time during the torch relay for the 2014 Sochi Winter Games. (Sergei Dolya/AP)
BUSINESS Business Countries Featured General Russia 

Icebreaker escorts up 100% in Russia

Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Monday, February 27, 2017 at 13:48
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As shipping in Russian Arctic waters picks up pace, the country’s nuclear-powered icebreakers struggle to meet demands. Russia’s nuclear-powered icebreakers

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BUSINESS Business Countries Featured General Russia 

Shipping companies snub Russian Arctic route

Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Monday, September 26, 2016 at 13:27
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Only about 200,000 tons of cargo has this year been sent transit along the Northern Sea Route. According to figures

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Business Society USA 

Lockheed Martin’s first cargo airship is planned for deployment in Alaska

Alex DeMarban, Alaska Dispatch News
Posted: Saturday, September 10, 2016 at 00:30
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Alaska could be the home of the world’s first modern cargo airship once the aircraft rolls off Lockheed Martin’s assembly line in

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A Russian fishing boat enters northern port of Murmansk in Kol'skiy (Kola) peninsula on the Barents Sea. (Alexander Nemenov/AFP/Getty Images)
BUSINESS Business Countries Featured General Russia 

Declining interest in Northern Sea Route

Trude Pettersen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Friday, March 18, 2016 at 13:21
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Interest from international ship operators in utilizing the Northern Sea Route has waned in recent years, according to a new

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BUSINESS Business Countries Featured General Russia 

New low for Northern Sea Route

Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Monday, February 15, 2016 at 15:04
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Only 40,000 tons of cargo was transported transit through the Russian Arctic route in 2015. And 75 percent of that

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A barge broke its tow in Canada's Arctic earlier this year and drifted as far away as the Russian coast. (US Coast Guard)
BUSINESS Business Countries Featured General Iceland 

Ship trouble in the Arctic on the rise: report

Liz Ruskin, Alaska Public Media
Posted: Thursday, March 26, 2015 at 14:14 — Last Updated: Thursday, March 26, 2015 at 21:54
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A new report says that as Artic ship traffic has increased, so has the number of Arctic ship mishaps. The

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A Russian fishing boat enters northern port of Murmansk in Kol'skiy (Kola) peninsula on the Barents Sea. (Alexander Nemenov/AFP/Getty Images)
BUSINESS Business Countries Featured General Russia 

Northern Sea Route traffic plummets

Trude Pettersen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Tuesday, December 16, 2014 at 14:49 — Last Updated: Wednesday, December 17, 2014 at 21:37
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After four years of increased use of the Northern Sea Route by vessels going in transit between Europe and Asia,

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Icebreaker towing cargo ship through thick ice-field in the European Arctic. What kind of shipping traffic will the North American Arctic experience with the changing climate? (iStock)
BUSINESS Featured SPECIAL FEATURES USA 

Arctic may not get that busy says U.S. report

APRN
Posted: Thursday, May 8, 2014 at 12:18
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As the ice goes out in the Arctic, many people predict more ships will be drawn through the Bering Strait

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