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Shipping’s Arctic Black Carbon Problem is Growing Faster Than Regulators Can Respond
There is a particular kind of institutional irony that only the International Maritime Organization can produce with quite such reliable…
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South Korea Selects Operator for First Arctic Container Trial Voyage via Russia’s Northern Sea Route
South Korea has preliminarily selected shipping company Panstar Line to operate the country’s first trial container voyage along Russia’s Northern…
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Russia-linked LNG Carrier ‘Merkuriy’ Loads at Arctic Hub, Expanding Shadow Fleet Capacity
The LNG carrier Merkuriy, recently reflagged to Russia alongside three other tankers, has been observed loading liquefied natural gas at…
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Russian LNG Carrier ‘Alexey Kosygin’ Makes First Delivery, Amid Looming Arctic Fleet Crunch
Russia’s newest liquefied natural gas carrier, the Arc7 ice?class vessel Alexey Kosygin, made its inaugural delivery to the Saam floating…
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Russia’s New Arc7 LNG Carrier ‘Alexey Kosygin’ Steams North Toward Arctic LNG 2
The newly delivered Arc7 ice-class liquefied natural gas (LNG) carrier Alexey Kosygin has departed the Russian Far East on its…
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Arctic Shipping Lane Sees Surge in ‘Shadow Fleet’ Traffic, Totaling 100 Sanctioned Vessels
Russia’s Arctic shipping lanes have become a corridor for the global shadow fleet of sanctioned oil and LNG tankers, raising…
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Russia Delivers First Home-Built Ice-Class Tanker for Sanctioned Arctic LNG 2
Sovcomflot PJSC, Russia’s largest shipping company, received the first domestically built ice-class tanker to expand the fleet of ships hauling…
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Sanctioned Tanker Links Russia’s Arctic Oil Trade to Venezuela for First Time
A sanctioned oil tanker has for the first time established a direct geographic link between Russia’s Arctic “shadow fleet” and…
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China Expands Arctic Container Shipping With Record 14 Voyages in 2025
China significantly expanded its use of the Northern Sea Route (NSR) in 2025, completing 14 container ship voyages between Asia…
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Russia Deploys All Eight Nuclear Icebreakers for First Time to Keep Arctic Export Routes Open
Russia has, for the first time, deployed its entire fleet of eight nuclear-powered icebreakers simultaneously to maintain winter shipping lanes…
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