The new systems should make shipping safer on the Northern Sea Route. The icebreaker “Kapitan Dranitsyn” in the Northeast Passage near Severnaya Zemlya. (Image: Heiner Kubny) The existing weather stations are aging and are to be upgraded. Roshydromet,...
After major damage on the way to Antarctica, the transport icebreaker “Sevmorput” will return to St. Petersburg. (Foto: Kommersant) The nuclear-powered freighter “Sevmorput”, which has been lying off Angola for several weeks, will not be able...
UPDATE: As we learned from our guest author Dmitry Kiselev, damage to one of the four propeller blades occurred and forced the ship to stop involuntarily. Meanwhile, divers from Russia have removed the damaged blade and another one. This means that the ship will now...