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Business Business (Russia) 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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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 (Russia) 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 (Russia) 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 (Iceland) 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 (Russia) 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 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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