Northwest Passage Shipping Booming

4 Responses to Northwest Passage Shipping Booming

1. suyts says:

   August 20, 2011 at 3:34 pm

   Interesting site. Did you click on the temp maps for both water and air temps?

   Reply
   • Latitude says:

     August 20, 2011 at 5:52 pm

     Click on the East Siberian Sea…..those are all icebreakers…and one tanker
     I ask you, if it’s “ice free”, why are they spending all that money using icebreakers?

     Reply
2. Scott says:

   August 20, 2011 at 5:44 pm

   I like this map the best for looking at this area in terms of ice:

   http://ice-glaces.ec.gc.ca/Ice_Can/CMMBCTCA.gif

   At the level of ice “health” we’ve seen the last few years, shipping doesn’t make any sense yet…what does one do?…have a few ships ready to dart through when it opens for 1 or 2 weeks? The hazard pay/insurance would probably result in little total benefit.

   -Scott

   Reply
3. Anything is possible says:

   August 20, 2011 at 6:24 pm

   Yamal (Russia)

   Nuclear powered icebreaker Yamal was built in St. Petersburg, Russia in 1992 by Murmansk Shipping Company and is one of five ice-breakers in this class. Yamal has taken passengers to the North Pole since 1993.

   Reply