2018 October 4

https://www.scmp.com

Commercial fishing banned across much of Arctic

The moratorium on Arctic fishing will safeguard an area about the size of the Mediterranean for at least the next 16 years, as warming temperatures allow summer navigation across what was previously ice...

2018 October 4

http://www.maritimeherald.com

Northern Sea Route: Russia Led the United States Out of the Game

In the gigantic amount of information accompanying the implementation of the Russian project “The Northern Sea Route,” it is very easy to get lost and come to the wrong conclusion that the main goal of this project is to create an alternative to the China-Europe route running through the Suez Canal...

2018 October 4

https://www.motorship.com

Green Aframax for Russian loading points

Russian shipowner SCF Sovcomflot recently commissioned the first of six LNG-fuelled, ice-strengthened Aframax tankers contracted from Hyundai Heavy Industries...