Tag: Northern Sea Route

A Korean company has received a contract to build 15 ice-breaking LNG carriers for Russia, informed the President of South Korea, Moon Jae-in, speaking at the Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok, on September 7.

Hyundai Merchant Marine considers starting sailing through the Northern Sea Route and is currently reviewing whether trials are likely to start up to 2020, so as the company to be able to use its 2,500- 3,500 TEU container ships for operations via the Russian Arctic.

On 17 August 2017, Sovcomflot's icebreaking LNG carrier "Christophe de Margerie" successfully completed her first commercial voyage, transporting liquefied natural gas through the Northern Sea Route from Norway to South Korea.

On 17 August 2017, Sovcomflot's icebreaking LNG carrier "Christophe de Margerie" successfully completed her first commercial voyage, transporting liquefied natural gas through the Northern Sea Route from Norway to South Korea.

The Center for Strategic Development will evaluate Russia's demand for new-generation super-heavy nuclear-powered icebreakers Lider (Project 10510) for the purposes of freight transportation along the Northern Sea Route, The Arctic informed.

Yamal LNG announced that the first Arc7 ice-class LNG tanker “Christophe de Margerie” has entered the Kara Sea and has started its first LNG cargo voyage through the Northern Sea Route. The subleased tanker will go through the NSR without the escort of icebreakers and will deliver LNG from Norway to South Korea in 15 days.

Following the increase of shipping traffic along the Northern Sea Route, Russian SCF Group has called for the government to continue to improve navigational safety measures and to ban substandard ships and crews sailing in the region, which is environmentally fragile.

The vessels arrived in Pevek from Arkhangelsk along the Northern Sea Route, delivering construction materials to the Arctic Region when they run across ice which measure ten points on a ten-point-scale.

HHL Valparaiso is the first vessel to sail open hatch through the Northern Sea Route as it delivers two giant ship-to-shore (STS) cranes from the European to the Far East region of Russia

BigLift Shipping’s m.v. Happy Rover is the first heavy lift vessel ever to have sailed Northern Searoute and the North West Passage within one season and also the first-ever vessel to use the shortest of the Northwest Passage routes, via Fury & Hecla Strait, as a transit trade lane between the Pacific and Atlantic oceans.