This year’s last transit shipment on Northern Sea Route is underway
Under conditions more typical of recent years, the Pugnax, with an ice class of Arc 7, would have been able to make the transit without icebreaker support.
December 15, 2021
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A few days after several ships were rescued from sea ice along Russia’s Northern Sea Route, the nuclear icebreaker Yamal readied to escort of the cargo ship Pugnax through remote Arctic waters.
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