by admin | Jun 3, 2020 | Blog
For many months now, those of us with interests in Polar shipping have been awaiting the news on the selection of shippers and exporters for Russia’s ambitious Yamal LNG project. On 15 July the Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev announced Russia had granted LNG...
by admin | Jun 3, 2020 | Blog
It feels a tad ironic that I left London behind this morning clear and crisp and now sit in Vancouver, heavily shrouded in fog. Sherlock Holmes would love it that irony. The only fog I saw in London this past week was the fog of fatigue from the delegates...
by admin | Jun 3, 2020 | Blog
It is nearing the end of day two at IMO. As is normal for this organization, sessions are usually marathon runs, as committees, sub-committees and working groups attempt to meet their various goals and remits. Regardless of some press that has come...
by admin | Jun 3, 2020 | Blog
I am off to London in the next few hours to attend IMO SDC 1 Sub-committee on Ship Design and Construction. This is the first meeting under the re-engineered sub-committee structure. There has been somewhat of a streamlining achieved with the previous...
by admin | Jun 3, 2020 | Blog
I just watched an interesting YouTube video on the Panama Canal: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6Z4OnLCYIM One can’t help but wonder after watching the latest update from the Panama Canal Commission, how anyone could seriously believe either the Northern Sea Route...
by admin | Jun 3, 2020 | Blog
Russian sources were obtained and used by the navigation and research teams onboard. These included analyses completed in the form of ice charts, as well as visual, radar and thermal satellite imagery. The ship and crew were able to complete a rigourous science...
