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Massive dredging opens a shallow Russian Arctic gulf for bigger ships

The larger shipping channel is key to Novatek's Arctic LNG 2 project.

By Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer December 4, 2020
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Russia’s state nuclear power company Rosatom and its subsidiary Hydrographical Company undertook major dredging operations in the Gulf of Ob (also known as Ob Bay) this summer to widen and deepen a shipping channel there.

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