Rosatom has officially been granted the right to develop, regulate and control the NSR: It’s a law - Russian Arctic shipping to be regulated by Rosatom President Putin signs the bill that makes the country’s state nuclear power company top regulator of the Northern Sea Route. …

Will there be any bidders this time around: [image] Hydrographic Company to hold auction for construction of Arc7 hydrographic ship

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ombugge July 25, 2021, 3:54pm 223

en.portnews.ru

Northern Sea Route cargo traffic rose by 2.59% to 17,047,282 tonnes YTD

ombugge July 29, 2021, 8:55pm 224

Kind of Arctic News:

The Independent Barents Observer

Final voyage for Soviet’s first nuclear sub will be via the inner waterways

The legendary submarine K-3 "Leninsky Komsomol" will be transported from the Nerpa shipyard on the Kola Peninsula to Kronstadt outside St. Petersburg to become part of the Museum of Navy Glory.

This was the first Soviet Sub to reach the North Pole. (Can’t be more “Arctic” than that)

ombugge August 1, 2021, 10:21am 225

ArcticToday – 30 Jul 21

Greenland experienced 'massive' ice melt this week, scientists say - ArcticToday

BRUSSELS — With climate change fueling high temperatures across the Arctic, Greenland lost a massive amount of ice on Wednesday with enough melting to cover the U.S. state of Florida in 2 inches (5.1 centimeters) of water, scientists said. It was the...

Est. reading time: 2 minutes

ombugge August 2, 2021, 8:08pm 226

Will there be any bidders this time around:

en.portnews.ru

Hydrographic Company to hold auction for construction of Arc7 hydrographic ship

Tupsis August 2, 2021, 8:14pm 227

Unlikely considering they didn’t increase the maximum contract price.

Tupsis August 2, 2021, 8:17pm 228

Ponant’s icebreaking cruise ship delivered:

cruiseindustrynews.com – 2 Aug 21

Ponant Takes Delivery of Le Commandant Charcot from Fincantieri's VARD

Fincantieri’s subsidiary VARD was delivered the advanced Le Commandant Charcot to Ponant. According to VARD, the unique and state-of-the-art electric hybri...

ombugge August 2, 2021, 8:28pm 229

She is still at Vard Langstein though.

ombugge August 4, 2021, 9:23pm 230

Predicted navigation season along the NSR:

grida.no

Projected increase (days) of the navigation season through the Northern Sea...

The Northern Sea Route (NSR) is a seasonally ice-covered marine shipping lane along the Russian coasts, from Novaya Zemlya in the west to the Bering Strait in the east. The NSR is administered by the Russian Ministry of Transport and has been open to...

Here is a prediction for 2021:

Japanese weather company says the arctic will only be navigable for two months this year.
According to forecasts made by Japanese marine weather specialist, Weathernews, the Northern Sea Route will only be navigable for two months this year. “Although shorter than the longest-ever record of 88 days marked last year, the passage is projected to stay open for approximately two months,” the Japan-based analyst said.The ice area in the region is expected to shrink to 3.74m square kilometres in mid-September, which is the third smallest reading since records began in 1979.In contrast, last year saw a longer season for passage making with record-high summer temperatures in Siberia accelerating ice loss. Source : Maritime Direct

ombugge August 4, 2021, 11:15pm 231

ArcticToday – 4 Aug 21

Vast wildfires in Russia's Yakutia have already set an emissions record -...

MOSCOW — Summer wildfires have already produced a record amount of carbon emissions in Russia’s Siberian region of Yakutia, with still more weeks of the fire season to come, according to the European Union’s Copernicus satellite monitoring unit....

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ombugge August 6, 2021, 9:55pm 232

ArcticToday – 6 Aug 21

Russia starts operation to lay undersea fiber-optic cable through Arctic -...

MURMANSK — Russia on Friday begins laying its first undersea fiber optic communications cable through the Arctic as part of a state-run project to bring high-speed internet to its remote hydrocarbon-rich north after a private-led initiative stalled....

Est. reading time: 2 minutes

ombugge August 11, 2021, 9:37pm 233

ArcticToday – 10 Aug 21

A billionaire-backed mining firm will look for EV metals in Greenland -...

COPENHAGEN — Mineral exploration company KoBold Metals, backed by billionaires including Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates, has signed an agreement with London-listed Bluejay Mining to search in Greenland for critical materials used in electric vehicles....

Est. reading time: 2 minutes

ombugge August 16, 2021, 11:38am 234

The Independent Barents Observer

Here comes Norway's new ice-strengthened coast guard ship

Vanishing sea ice gives Norway more waters to patrol. The hull for the first of three new Coast Guard ships to operate in the Arctic zone is now being towed from the shipyard in Romania.

ombugge August 18, 2021, 9:35pm 235

The Independent Barents Observer

Norwegian Oil Fund's new eco standards add pressure on Arctic extractors

The powerful sovereign wealth fund says it will pin its investments to a series of expectations on biodiversity and ecosystem. That could have consequences for the Fund's investments in the Arctic, including in Russian energy companies.

ombugge August 19, 2021, 8:47pm 236

A new “Cod War” brewing??:

ArcticToday – 19 Aug 21

How a standoff over cod could test the boundaries of the Svalbard Treaty -...

A dispute over 10,000 tons of cod that until now has been waged between diplomats in Oslo and Brussels risks spilling over to the high seas in the coming days, when EU fishing vessels are predicted to reach what Norway says is their limit for the...

Est. reading time: 6 minutes

“Homesteading” on the Kola Peninsula:

The Independent Barents Observer

Murmansk offers free land plots to stop depopulation

Sofia Agashkova from Severomorsk is the first person on the Kola Peninsula to get an “Arctic Hectare” after the Russian government expanded the program which previously only targeted regions in the Far East.

ombugge August 20, 2021, 9:11pm 237

ArcticToday – 20 Aug 21

The first-ever rainfall was just recorded at the summit of the Greenland Ice...

For the first time on record, rain fell at the highest point of Greenland’s ice sheet, the National Snow and Ice Data Center reported. The first documented rain at Greenland’s highest elevation occurred on Aug. 14 and was recorded at the National...

Est. reading time: 5 minutes

ombugge August 30, 2021, 8:34pm 238

New island discovered off Greenland said to be northernmost in the world:

ArcticToday – 27 Aug 21

Swiss-Danish expedition finds the world’s northernmost island - ArcticToday

We were a team of five from the Leister Expedition Around North Greenland 2021, a Swiss-Danish scientific expedition, that landed on the island in a small chartered helicopter in late July. We were convinced that we had landed on Oodaap Qeqertaa — or...

Est. reading time: 9 minutes

ArcticToday – 30 Aug 21

In race to save climate, off-road series stages first auto race in Greenland...

Greenland’s first-ever motorsports event was won by the British-Swedish driving team of Catie Munnings and Timmy Hansen, as they claimed victory in the inaugural run of the Arctic X Prix in Kangerlussuaq on Sunday. The race is the third in the...

Est. reading time: 3 minutes

ombugge September 6, 2021, 10:38pm 239

How Arctic warming cause cold spells in Texas:

ArcticToday – 6 Sep 21

How Arctic warming triggers extreme cold waves like the Texas freeze -...

In February 2021, in the midst of rapidly warming global temperatures, an exceptionally severe cold wave hit large parts of North America, from Canada to Northern Mexico. It left 10 million people without power. The impact was particularly severe in...

Est. reading time: 7 minutes

ombugge September 7, 2021, 10:11am 240

Splash247 – 7 Sep 21

DP World eyes the Arctic as ‘one of the last great trading routes in the...

DP World will carry out a feasibility study with FESCO, Russia’s largest intermodal transport operator, on developing a new container berth at Vladivostok with an eye on growing Arctic shipping volumes via the Northern Sea Route. The study follows an...

Estimated reading time: 2 minutes

ombugge September 8, 2021, 10:21am 241

ArcticToday – 7 Sep 21

A giant module for Novatek's Arctic LNG 2 project sails the Northern Sea Route...

A giant module built for the first train in Novatek’s Arctic LNG 2 plant is sailing north. The module was built at Wison Offshore and Marine’s Zhoushan yard in China and is now being shipped towards Novatek’s Kola yard in Belokamenka north of...

Est. reading time: 3 minutes

ombugge September 9, 2021, 12:24pm 242

ArcticToday – 8 Sep 21

Russian emergencies minister dies trying to save man during Arctic exercise -...

MOSCOW — A Russian government minister who once served in President Vladimir Putin’s security detail died in the Arctic on Wednesday while trying to save the life of a film director who fell into a river, his ministry said. Yevgeny Zinichev, 55, a...

Est. reading time: 2 minutes

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