Tag: Arctic

As a meeting of the International Maritime Organization’s Marine Environment Protection Committee (IMO, MEPC 81) gets underway, the Clean Arctic Alliance urged IMO member states to agree to creation of new areas in the Arctic which will be protected from polluting air emissions from shipping.

Seaspan Shipyards has awarded ABB a contract to deliver an integrated propulsion system for the first of the CCG’s new-generation polar class icebreakers.

In a recent open letter to the Arctic Council, Bellona and the Alliance requested that a concrete zero-emissions policy be established for Arctic shipping, and that all Arctic nations implement the IMO resolution that urges the use of distillate or cleaner alternative fuels in or near the Arctic on a voluntary basis.

The Arctic Council’s Working Group on the Protection of the Arctic Marine Environment (PAME) has issued its Arctic Shipping Status Report – Flag States of Ships in the Arctic: 2022, which analyzes the number of ships operating in the by their Flag State.

Green Instruments A/S and Danish Technological Institute have collaboratively developed a real-time flue gas sensor technology for accurate measurement of black carbon emissions from ships.

In a letter to Morten Høglund, the Chair of the Senior Arctic Officials of the Arctic Council, on 12th December, the Clean Arctic Alliance and its member organisation, Norway-based Bellona, called on the Arctic Council to take action to reduce black carbon and greenhouse gas emissions from shipping in the Arctic.

Steerprop has been chosen to supply advanced ice-classed bow thrusters to the Canadian Coast Guard’s new Polar Icebreaker. The ship will be designed and built by Seaspan Shipyards as part of Canada’s National Shipbuilding Strategy. When completed, she will be one of the most powerful icebreakers in the world.

From 1 July 2024, heavy fuel oil (HFO) may no longer be used or carried as domestic fuel in bunker tanks when in Arctic waters, with some exceptions, DNV reminds in a recent regulatory update.

According to a new research, based largely on information from the Copernicus Sentinel-1 and ESA’s CryoSat satellite missions, has revealed alarming findings about the state of Antarctica's ice shelves.

Recently, Russia has been actively engaged in identifying other pathways to circumvent its reliance on the Black Sea and evade the impact of sanctions. Consequently, Russia is increasingly shifting its focus towards the use of the Northern Sea Route (NSR).