Tiksi and its 4,000 or so inhabitants are in a good position for growth (Photo: A.L.) After losing two-thirds of its population since the 1980s, the town of Tiksi is counting on the emergence of the Northern Sea Route as profitable shipping lane for Moscow as it looks...
In a message, Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei, Leader of the Islamic Revolution, warmly welcomed the naval forces upon the arrival of the 86th Iranian Navy warship fleet in the port city of Bandar Abbas. (Photo: Tehran Times) According to Iran’s Tasnim news agency,...
Baker Hughes reportedly suspended service engineers from Gazprom’s Sakhalin-2 and Novatek’s Yamal LNG projects, as well as project engineers and equipment supplies for Novatek’s Arctic LNG-2 plant, which is still under construction. (Photo: Novatek)...
At more than 300 metres, today’s biggest cruise liners easily dominate Ushuaia’s 624m main peir (Photo: Direccion provincial de puertos) The cruise industry is booming, and trips to Antarctica are particularly popular. The port of Ushuaia is betting that a major...
Showa Station is a Japanese Antarctic research station established in 1957 on Ongul Island off the coast of Queen Maud Land. The sea around the station is usually covered with ice all year round (Photo: NIPR) The sea around Japan’s Showa Station is covered with sea...
