Arctic Shipping

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Rotten fish to help power Hurtigruten cruise ships after refit

This is Money 16 Nov 2018

Norway's Hurtigruten, best known for the ships that ferry tourists along the country's fjords and coastline and up into the Arctic, is investing 7 billion crowns ($826 million) over three years to adapt its 17-strong fleet ... The shipping sector is facing tougher international ......

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What people in the 19th century thought travel would look like today

Yahoo Daily News 13 Nov 2018

This was the early age of the airship, and the German firm thought that by now we might all be touring the Arctic on board fleets of them. True, polar tourism is now big business, but cruise ships, not blimps, are the preferred mode of transport.View photos ... Cruise ships today take ......

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Giant Arctic ice-breaking LNG tanker set to load first cargo

The National 13 Nov 2018

A new ice-breaking tanker capable of navigating the Arctic on its own is set to load its first liquefied natural gas (LNG) shipment from Russia's fast-expanding Yamal facility ... Mega-ships set to take to Arctic's Northern Sea Route ... All but one of the ships ordered by Novatek are named after early 20th century Russian Arctic scientists and explorers....

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Bruce Gjovig: A century of air superiority

Grand Forks Herald 12 Nov 2018

In 1926 Eielson became the first aviator to cross the Arctic Ocean and land a plane on the Arctic ice slope. In 1927, Eielson and Australian explorer Sir Hubert Wilkins made test flights over the Arctic ... The Arctic aviator is remembered at Eielson Air Force Base, Alaska, and the elementary school on the Grand Forks AFB....

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As Arctic ship traffic increases, narwhals and other unique animals are at risk

PhysOrg 10 Nov 2018

Most Americans associate fall with football and raking leaves, but in the Arctic this season is about ice. Every year, floating sea ice in the Arctic thins and melts in spring and summer, then thickens and expands in fall and winter ... ....

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Navy answered JL Weeks’ dream to travel

South East Sun 10 Nov 2018

He said he had the opportunity to board this historic ship during his time in Boston, as well as visiting Bunker Hill and other sites around the city ... You’re brother’s on the ship over here ... Weeks spent four years on a ship ... Just before we turned (our ship), the Arctic Circle was probably less than 50 miles north of us ... His ship also stopped in....

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Baffinland Iron Mines sets shipping record

Dry Bulk 09 Nov 2018

This establishes the record for the largest shipping programme by volume ever executed in the Canadian High Arctic, surpassing Baffinland’s previous record of 4.1 million t shipped in 2017 ... https.//www.drybulkmagazine.com/shipping/09112018/baffinland-iron-mines-sets-shipping-record-in-the-canadian-high-arctic/....

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New Balance Men's Fresh Foam Arishi Shoes for $32 + free shipping

CNET 09 Nov 2018

Joe's New Balance offers the New Balance Men's Fresh Foam Arishi Running Shoes in Grey or Arctic Fox for $31.50 with free shipping. That's $2 under last month's mention, a low by $26, and the best price we've seen. They're available in select medium and extra-wide widths sizes from 7 to 14. Deal ends November 11 ... ....

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Dutch to prosecute doctor who euthanized woman with dementia

Wtop 09 Nov 2018

All rights reserved ... Brazil police arrest ex-meatpacking executive in graft probe World News As Arctic ship traffic increases, narwhals and other unique animals are at risk World News Letter shows a fearful Einstein long before Nazis' rise World News. ....

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Brazil police arrest ex-meatpacking executive in graft probe

Wtop 09 Nov 2018

Temer denies wrongdoing ... More News. As Arctic ship traffic increases, narwhals and other unique animals are at risk World News Letter shows a fearful Einstein long before Nazis' rise World News Macron weakened ahead of Trump, Putin meeting World News. ....

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'Civilization' seen through photography

Korea Times 08 Nov 2018

Installation view of "Civilization ... Jeffrey Milstein's "Cruise Ships" series portrays the world's most luxurious cruise ships seen from above, as objects of desire. In reference to a picture depicting photographers in the Arctic, the curator said it could be about travel, exploration and global warming, signaling how pollution is everywhere ... ....

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Remembering Misericordia nursing grad, killed in Second World War

Toronto Sun 07 Nov 2018

At 3 a.m., the ship was torn apart by a torpedo from a German U-boat ... One of 100 people to survive from the 237 passengers and crew aboard the Caribou, Brooke, who was from Ardath, Sask., and died in Victoria in 2016, was made a member of the Order of the British Empire, and had an Arctic offshore naval patrol ship named after her....

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How to reduce the impact of shipping vessel noise on fish? Slow them down

PhysOrg 06 Nov 2018

The western Canadian Arctic's natural underwater soundscape has been shielded from the din of commercial shipping by the sea ice that covers the area, rendering it mostly inaccessible to shipping vessels. But with large amounts of ice shrinking in the Arctic Ocean, a growing number of ships are gaining access to the area ... ....