No commercial ships in sight ….
Disrupting the Borg is expensive and time consuming!
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Interesting site. Did you click on the temp maps for both water and air temps?
Click on the East Siberian Sea…..those are all icebreakers…and one tanker
I ask you, if it’s “ice free”, why are they spending all that money using icebreakers?
I like this map the best for looking at this area in terms of ice:
http://ice-glaces.ec.gc.ca/Ice_Can/CMMBCTCA.gif
At the level of ice “health” we’ve seen the last few years, shipping doesn’t make any sense yet…what does one do?…have a few ships ready to dart through when it opens for 1 or 2 weeks? The hazard pay/insurance would probably result in little total benefit.
-Scott
Yamal (Russia)
Nuclear powered icebreaker Yamal was built in St. Petersburg, Russia in 1992 by Murmansk Shipping Company and is one of five ice-breakers in this class. Yamal has taken passengers to the North Pole since 1993.