arctic shipping

By Alister Doyle and Timothy Gardner OSLO/WASHINGTON, March 23 (Reuters) – Winter sea ice on the Arctic Ocean covered the second smallest area on

By Adam Minter (Bloomberg View) — Last week, China said it plans to build a “Polar Silk Road” that will open shipping lanes across the

By Peter Apps Jan 30 (Reuters) – Last August, a Russian tanker sailed direct from Norway to South Korea through the Arctic Ocean, the first time such a

BEIJING, Jan 26 (Reuters) – China on Friday outlined its ambitions to extend President Xi Jinping’s signature Belt and Road Initiative to the

By Elena Mazneva (Bloomberg) — Russia’s Yamal LNG, set to be the world’s biggest Arctic producer of liquefied natural gas, plans to send

By Environment Correspondent Alister Doyle OSLO, Aug 11 (Reuters) – Russian shipping in the Arctic is benefiting from winds that are driving the oldest

By Alister Doyle, Environment Correspondent OSLO, April 25 (Reuters) – The Arctic’s quickening thaw is melting the permafrost under buildings and

By Dina Khrennikova and Elena Mazneva (Bloomberg) — Vladimir Putin wanted to remake Josef Stalin’s quest for a greater foothold in the Arctic into a

Russian shipping company Sovcomflot (SCF) says its new arctic shuttle tankers have now transported one million tonnes of crude oil from the Yamal Peninsula to

The Russian shipping company Sovcomflot says its new arctic shuttle tanker Shturman Albanov has delivered its first oil cargo from the Novy Port oil field in

BEIJING, April 20 (Reuters) – China will encourage ships flying its flag to take the Northwest Passage via the Arctic Ocean, a route opened up by global

A new report from The Pew Charitable Trusts says that more oversight and planning is needed to address the steady increase in ship traffic

By Jonathan Saul and Nina Chestney LONDON, Feb 25 (Reuters) – The Arctic is thawing even faster than lawmakers can formulate new rules to prevent the

By Eric Roston (Bloomberg) — As chairman of investments at Guggenheim Partners, Scott Minerd thought he had a realistic view on how big an economic

  By David J. Lynch (Bloomberg) — Even as melting Arctic glaciers threaten to swamp shorelines, nations from Russia to the U.S. are betting that

  The Government of Canada announced Thursday that it is investing $22.7 million over the next five years to help improve the safety of marine

Western sanctions on Russia are restricting the Arctic shipping route along its north coast to domestic cargoes and energy exports with many foreign firms

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Canada will fail to deliver a proposed fleet of six to eight Arctic patrol ships unless it spends significantly more than the C$2.8 billion ($2.51 billion)

The Northern Sea Route of the Northeast Passage saw a record number of applications for permits to sail the famed arctic route in 2014, while sea ice extent