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...
Russian coal production in Svalbard will be reduced by two-thirds to 40,000 tonnes per year by 2032 (Photo: Arktikugol) After acquiring the rights to mine coal on Spitsbergen more than a century ago, Russia says it will reduce coal production to the minimum needed to...
