Ships stuck in Arctic ice

AtomFlot, part of Russia’s state nuclear energy corporation RosAtom, has ordered two more nuclear-powered icebreakers from Baltic Shipyard in Saint Petersburg

AtomEnergoProm (AEP), part of Russia’s state atomic energy corporation RosAtom, has increased its shareholding in Delo Management Company (DMC), the holding of the country’s leading container operator Delo Group, from 30% to 49%

Finland’s Helsinki Shipyard is about to start construction of a LNG-driven icebreaker for the world’s largest producer of palladium and high-grade nickel

Apart from winning the auction for Russian Railway’sTranscontainer stake, Delo is cooperating with RosAtom to develop North East Passage transportation assets

MSC says it “will not explore or use the Northern Sea Route between Europe and Asia for container shipping…shipping lines should focus on reducing environmental impact of existing shipping trade routes”

VENTA MAERSK, the first container ship to transit the Northern Sea Route, will shortly complete her voyage from Vladivostock to St Petersburg. The vessel required ice-breaker support though the East Siberian Sea