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U.N. finalizes Polar Shipping Code after six years
IMO adopts several important protections but lacks vital heavy fuel use ban in the Arctic LONDON, U.K. – The International Maritime Organization — the U.N. agency charged with establishing glo…
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Great expectations: United States to lead Arctic Council
On April 24, at the Ministerial meeting in Iqaluit, Nunavut, the United States will chair the Arctic Council, taking over from Canada. The last time the U.S. held the gavel at the Council — a hi…
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Ten years after major shipwreck in Alaskas Aleutian Islands, area gets first international shipping protections
LONDON, U.K. – The International Maritime Organization — a U.N. specialized agency responsible for globally recognized shipping measures — today approved protective buffer zones (“Area…
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Arctic shipping report advocates immediate cleanup of vessel fuel to combat emissions
WASHINGTON, D.C. — A new report by the International Council on Clean Transportation finds that emissions from Arctic shipping traffic could rise 150-600 percent by 2025. As global warming intensif…
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Polar Code too weak to properly protect polar environments from increased shipping activity
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Responding to today’s adoption by the International Maritime Organisation of the long-awaited Polar Code, aimed at regulating shipping in Polar Regions, a coalition of environ…
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Decreasing Arctic sea ice makes way for shipping and unchecked pollution
May 2014 marked the third lowest May Arctic sea ice extent on satellite record, totaling 4.93 million square miles. The sea ice remains 235,500 square miles below the 1981-2010 average. According to t…
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A containers pivotal role in Robert Redfords new movie, All is Lost
A harrowing new film entitled All is Loststarring Robert Redford, whose character tests his mettle against the sea, features an item familiar to many in the maritime and logistics communities: the shi…
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IMOs Polar Code ignores environmental dangers of increased Arctic and Antarctic shipping
Washington, D.C. – Last week a sub-committee of the International Maritime Organization reached a preliminary agreement, known as the “Polar Code,” on mandatory environmental and safety measures…
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Green Group CEO Letter to Interior Department on Arctic Ocean Drilling
Conservation groups called on the Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar to suspend offshore oil and gas activities in the Arctic Ocean.
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The specter of Arctic shipping
Two recent articles outline well some of the harms that Arctic shipping, and shipping more generally, poses to the environment. Rick Steiner, a former professor at the University of Alaska, writes…