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Arctic
Every Vessel Hunter story on Arctic: 25 stories, from 15 July 2026 to 9 October 2026. Newest: "Busan manager IOB takes over four Arc4 LNG carriers once built for MOL". Each story links to the ships and ports it names, so a name in the text opens the record behind it.
Busan manager IOB takes over four Arc4 LNG carriers once built for MOL
Busan-based IOB has started operations with four 174,000 cu m Arc4 LNG carriers built for MOL and plans to add three to six Arc7 ships in 2027.
Kongsberg Maritime Agrees to Buy Finnish Thruster Maker Steerprop
Kongsberg Maritime has agreed to acquire Steerprop, a Finnish designer and manufacturer of azimuth propulsion systems for high ice-class and Arctic vessels.
EU Ports Took 156 Yamal Cargoes in Eight Months Before the January Ban
EU ports received 156 Yamal LNG shipments totalling 11.39m tonnes in the first eight months of 2026, 10% more than a year earlier, three months before the import ban takes effect.
Dubai Tower Reaches Teesport on the Arctic Route From China
The containership Dubai Tower has arrived at Teesport after sailing from Ningbo through the Arctic, the first of eight Northern Sea Route crossings planned this season.
Rosatom and NewNew Advance Five Arc7 Boxships for Arctic Run
Rosatom and NewNew Shipping are advancing five Arc7 ice-class container ships for year-round Northern Sea Route service, with Murmansk under consideration as home port.
Maritime Briefing of 8 September 2026
The day in shipping: Rosneft opens its Arctic export terminal, fire hits the icebreaker Admiral Makarov, Panama defers a draft cut, and a sanctioned roro is struck off Crete.
Fire Breaks Out Aboard Icebreaker Admiral Makarov During St Petersburg Refit
A fire spread across roughly 80 square metres of the icebreaker Admiral Makarov while the 1975-built vessel lay under repair in St Petersburg. No injuries were reported.
Rosneft Ships First Vostok Oil Cargo Through New Sever Bay Arctic Port
Rosneft has begun exporting crude from the Vostok Oil development through the newly built Sever Bay terminal on the Taimyr Peninsula, loading its first shuttle tanker on 5 September.
China, Russia and Kazakhstan Weigh an Ob-Irtysh River Route to the Russian Arctic
A revived Ob-Irtysh corridor would let Chinese goods reach Russian Arctic ports at the base of the Yamal Peninsula, but ice, drought and hydropower locks stand between the plan and the cargo.
Maritime Briefing, 2 September 2026: Hormuz, Congestion, Korean Yards
Transits through Hormuz down to five a day, Drewry rejecting the port capacity argument, and two Korean yards bidding for American naval work.
Russia Puts a $116bn Price Tag on Its Trans-Arctic Transport Corridor
The RUB10trn programme covers ports, rail, inland waterways, an expanded nuclear icebreaker fleet and a much larger ice-class merchant fleet, split evenly either side of 2030.
Russia Opens Northern Sea Route Talks With India and Vietnam
The Arctic corridor cuts about 40 percent off the distance from Indian ports to Europe, and India is planning a first pilot transit in 2027.
Canada Orders Six Polar Icebreakers From Davie in C$11.3bn Deal
Ottawa has committed C$11.3bn to six Polar Class 3 icebreakers at Chantier Davie in Levis, with construction starting in 2027 and the series complete by 2038.
Finland Picks Helsinki Shipyard to Build the Icebreaker Aino
Helsinki Shipyard has won the contract for the first of Finland's next-generation icebreakers, a 96-metre vessel able to open a 25-metre channel, with delivery set for September 2029.
Chinese Operator To Launch First Scheduled Arctic Container Service
A Chinese operator is preparing to launch the first regular scheduled liner service through the Northern Sea Route, with a twenty-day passage from China to Felixstowe.
Trump's 6.8 Billion Dollar Icebreaker Programme Draws Scrutiny Over No-Bid Awards
President Trump's plan for eleven Arctic icebreakers has produced nearly 6.8 billion dollars in contracts awarded without competitive bidding, at a time the Coast Guard had said it needed four or five.
Sovcomflot Assembles Sanctioned Tanker Convoy For Arctic Run To Asia
Russia's state shipping company is assembling a flotilla of sanctioned tankers in the Kara Sea for a convoy passage to Asia along the Northern Sea Route, reportedly carrying more than 950,000 tonnes of crude.
Satellite Images Reveal Novatek Terminal And Tank Farm Rising In Kola Bay
Satellite imagery shows at least fifteen gas reservoir tanks and a sea terminal rising at Belokamenka in the Kola Bay, which Novatek has confirmed form part of its heavily sanctioned Murmansk LNG project.
Washington moves to ease Arctic offshore drilling rules
The United States Department of the Interior has proposed a rule making what it calls targeted updates to the regulations governing exploratory oil and gas drilling on the Arctic Outer Continental Shelf.
PanStar prepares South Korea's first Arctic container voyage to Europe
Cargo is being booked for South Korea's maiden container voyage through the Northern Sea Route, with a 2,800 teu vessel chartered by PanStar Line due to sail from Busan on 22 August calling at Rotterdam, Hamburg and Gdansk.
US icebreaker Healy suffers engine casualty on sea trials
The United States Coast Guard icebreaker Healy was towed back to Seattle after a significant engineering casualty during post-refit sea trials.
Canada picks TKMS for up to twelve submarines
Canada has named TKMS preferred supplier for up to twelve Type 212CD submarines in its largest ever defence procurement.
EU adds more than 40 shadow fleet vessels to sanctions list
The European Union has added more than 40 shadow fleet vessels to its sanctions list, several of them regular visitors to Arctic waters.
Tara Polar Station sets off on first long-term Arctic drift
France's Tara Polar Station has begun its first long-term Arctic drift, a multinational scientific mission expected to see the vessel trapped in pack ice for as long as 500 days.
South Korea sends its icebreaker Araon on an 83-day Arctic mission
South Korea has deployed its only icebreaking research vessel, Araon, on an 83-day Arctic expedition to collect data for safer future navigation.
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