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Russia aims to make Northern Sea Route world-class shipping lane

10 July 201910 July 2019 Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer 0 Comments energy, icebreakers, Northern Sea Route, Rosatom, shipping

With new super-powerful icebreakers, the Russian Arctic route might be able to compete with the Suez Canal, leader of nuclear

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LNG tanker breaking through thick ice in Russia’s eastern Arctic

5 July 2019 Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer 0 Comments energy, gas, icebreakers, LNG, Northern Sea Route, sea ice, shipping

The Vladimir Rusanov is breaking its way from Sabetta to Korea through Russia’s Arctic route. The ship left Sabetta, the

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Canadian Coast Guard adds three weeks to Arctic season as icebreakers head North

20 June 2019 Alex Brockman, CBC News 0 Comments Canadian Coast Guard, Coast Guard, icebreakers, Northwest Territories, Nunavut, NWT, shipping

The Canadian Coast Guard is extending its Arctic ice-breaking season by three weeks this summer, an effort that could prevent

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Video – Inside Russia’s rapid Arctic expansion

20 June 201921 June 2019 CBC News 0 Comments defence, energy, gas, icebreakers, indigenous, Infrastructure, LNG, military, Murmansk, Nenets, Nikel, reindeer, Sami, Yamal peninsula

Russia is rapidly expanding its economic and military presence in the Arctic. The country’s ambitions are bringing changes to the

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Ottawa ‘explores options’ to build Canada’s polar icebreaker

11 June 2019 Levon Sevunts, Radio Canada International 0 Comments Canadian Coast Guard, Canadian Navy, Coast Guard, Davie, icebreakers, Irving, Seaspan, shipyards

The federal government intends to turn to another Canadian shipyard for the construction of its long-awaited polar ice breaker, according

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New Russian icebreaker will boost year-round shipping on Northern Sea Route

27 May 201927 May 2019 Thomas Nilsen, The Independent Barents Observer 0 Comments energy, icebreakers, LNG, Northern Sea Route, shipping, transport

With two powerful nuclear reactors, Rosatomflot’s third LK-60Ya icebreaker will help Russia export even more gas to Asia by 2022.

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New U.S. icebreaker will focus on Antarctic, says Coast Guard boss

22 May 201924 May 2019 Liz Ruskin, Alaska Public Media 0 Comments Antarctica, Coast Guard, icebreakers, ships

The Coast Guard expects to launch the first of three new icebreakers in 2024, but don’t expect to see much

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New icebreaking tanker chooses southern route for maiden voyage

14 May 201914 May 2019 Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer 0 Comments icebreakers, NIkolay Yevgenov, Northern Sea Route, shipping, transport

The maiden voyage of top ice-class LNG tanker Nikolay Yevgenov goes through the Suez Canal and not the Northern Sea

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Why are the US lagging behind in the Arctic? Clues emerge at Washington hearing

9 May 2019 Liz Ruskin, Alaska Public Media 0 Comments Alaska, China, Coast Guard, Congress, defence, icebreakers, military, navy, Nome

The United States is losing control over the Arctic to Russia and China because it failed to build the ships,

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Arctic Russia: Chinese-built tanker tests ice in remote waters

8 May 20198 May 2019 Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer 0 Comments China, icebreakers, Northern Sea Route, sea ice, shipping, Taymyr

Ice lies thick on the water as the world’s first icebreaking condensate tanker sails into a shallow bay by Taymyr

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Details of China’s nuclear-powered icebreaker revealed

21 March 201921 March 2019 Thomas Nilsen, The Independent Barents Observer 0 Comments China, icebreakers, natural resources, naval, Navigation, Northern Sea Route, nuclear, nuclear icebreakers, ships

To be powered by two reactors, the vessel will manage to crush ice in the Arctic at a maximum speed

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Nuclear icebreaker operations should be moved away from Murmansk, safety expert says

13 March 2019 Thomas Nilsen, The Independent Barents Observer 0 Comments icebreakers, Murmansk, Northern Sea Route, nuclear icebreakers, nuclear waste, Rosatomflot

Rosatomflot’s service base is not sized for all the planned new nuclear-powered icebreakers, says Andrey Zolotkov, who previously worked as

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Russia extends lifetime of nuclear icebreakers to meet rising demand

12 March 201912 March 2019 Thomas Nilsen, The Independent Barents Observer 0 Comments icebreakers, Northern Sea Route, nuclear icebreakers, Rosatomflot, shipping

New powerful icebreakers are under construction, but to meet demand the current fleet of nuclear icebreakers in Murmansk will have

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‘Uber for icebreakers’ idea gains traction in U.S. Senate

30 January 20191 February 2019 Liz Ruskin, Alaska Public Media 0 Comments Alaska, Coast Guard, icebreakers, Lisa Murkowski, ports, shipping, transport, US Senate

This was the year Congress was finally going to spend some serious money to build an icebreaker. A Senate spending

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Cold winter brings out Finland’s icebreakers ahead of schedule

29 January 201929 January 2019 Yle News 0 Comments Baltic Sea, Bay of Bothnia, Gulf of Bothnia, icebreakers, Navigation, transport, weather, winter

Months of bone-chilling temperatures have turned much of the Bay of Bothnia into thick slabs of ice. Finnish icebreaker Sisu

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