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Yukon News
Wednesday, October 2, 2013
Danish-owned coal cargo ship sails through Northwest Passage Charmaine Noronha
He said it is expected to dock in Finland next week after traversing waters once-impenetrable with TORONTO thick ice. Danish-owned coal-laden Interest in the Northwest cargo ship has sailed through Passage is on the rise as climate the Northwest Passage for the first change is melting Arctic sea ice, time and into the history books creating open waterways. The as the second bulk carrier to navi- melting ice could make it a regugate the Arctic route. lar Atlantic-Pacific shipping lane. The Nordic Orion left Vancou“Climate change is advancver on Sept. 17 carrying 15,000 ing more quickly to the point tonnes of coal. Ed Coll, CEO of where the Northwest Passage has Bulk Partners, an operational become a more viable shipping partner of ship-owner Nordic route, roughly 30 years earlier Bulk Carriers, said Friday that the than most scientists estimated it freighter has passed Greenland. would,” said Michael Byers, an Associated Press
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international law expert at the University of British Columbia. “I don’t celebrate the opening of the Northwest Passage to shipping because it does raise enormous challenges to Canada and for countries around the world in terms of dealing with climate change and its consequences.” Coll said while the reality of melting ice is somewhat unsettling, it has also opened up a new frontier. Canada has laid claim over ownership of the passage but it is joined by Russia, the U.S., and Denmark in drafting claims before a U.N. commission to extend their undersea boundaries into ice-blocked areas. The Nordic Orion will not undermine Canada’s legal position that the Northwest Passage constitutes internal waters, since the
ship has registered its voyage with the Canadian Coast Guard, which means it has received Canada’s permission. It’s been more than four decades since the oil tanker SS Manhattan sailed through the Northwest Passage to test its feasibility as a trade route to deliver Alaskan oil to the U.S. East Coast, avoiding a long trip south to the Panama Canal. But its ice-hampered 1969 journey deterred others and the Americans opted for an oil pipeline to move Alaskan crude south. The Nordic Orion has sailed through the west coast of Greenland – an area Coll described as the most dangerous, hampered with floating icebergs – but he said the vessel incurred only one choke point at Peel Sound in northern Canada in Qikiqtaaluk, Nunavut, leaving it well on its way
to having successfully navigated the passage. The 738-foot (225-metre) long Nordic Orion, a Panamax-sized ship, has a strengthened bulk to cope with floating ice, as well as more steel and other features that make the heavy vessel suitable for the extreme Arctic conditions. By sailing through the Northwest Passage, the Nordic Orion was able to trim about 1,000 nautical miles, which translates to four days, from its usual route through the Panama Canal. It was also able to carry about 25 per cent more coal, given how shallow the canal is. These benefits have resulted in savings of nearly $200,000 said Bulk Partners. “But even if there wasn’t huge savings we would have done it just to do it, to pioneer it,” said Coll.
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