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The main topics of the issue:(6) Strategy POLAR TAXIThe discussion of the prospects of the Northern Sea Route, the Arctic region’s main water thoroughfare, involves researchers and politicians. Yet, there seems to be nobody more knowledgeable about the state of things in the North than the people who devoted their lives to it. We talked about the future of the NSR to polar explorer, Russian winner of the EY Entrepreneur of the Year 2015 Award and Chairman of Sovfracht Management Board Dmitry Purim.(10) Outlook TIME TO BUILD NEW SHIPSThe waters of the northern seas are ice-bound. To venture through their harsh whiteness, ships require reinforced hulls and immaculate engines. Russia has come back to the Arctic and in order for it to stay there it needs an extensive fleet of icebreakers. REPAIR YARDS OF ARKHANGELSKThe conditions of Arctic navigation continuously pose the risk of hull and propeller-rudder system damage to ships. A factor therefore crucial to the choice by the shipping companies operating along the Northern Sea Route of a port is the availability to it of ample repair facilities. GREEN CLUSTERIn the Soviet times, Arkhangelsk was proudly nicknamed “the Union’s sawmill”. Today, not only does its timber industry seek to restore Arkhangelsk’s status of the nation’s leading sawmill, it wants to become the a forerunner in high-end timber product manufacturing. To that effect, the area has established PomorInnovaLes territorial cluster.(36) History PROTECTIVE WEAR OF THE PASTComfortable, wear-resistant, waterproof and heat insulating, the clothing of geologists, oil people, hunters and Arctic explorers very often repeats the designs of what was once worn by the indigenous peoples of the North, Siberia and Far East. |
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