#Bremen cruise port

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Bunny and Raffles are going on a cruise!

Well, not exactly a cruise. While the tour by ship concept was most definitely a thing by 1895, this voyage is actually a scheduled steamship service.

North German Lloyd, or Norddeutscher Lloyd (NDL) to use its German name, merged in 1970 to become Hapag-Lloyd, one of the world's biggest shipping companies. They still do cruises today if you're interested.

The 1890s were a time of intense Great Power rivalry, as the various colonial empires, which I am including the United States as one of, competed for global influence and prestige. The ocean liner business was one of those, as countries vied to have the biggest, fastest and most luxurious vessels.

Anyway, some notes on the trip:

Railway companies ran special trains that connected with the ocean liner departures and would be reserved for the passengers heading down to the port. These would have the best engines, carriages and most skilled crews driving the engines. They would also have plenty of space for luggage.

NDL's stuff generally started from Bremen and then docked at Southampton around 24 hours later. Or rather just off Southampton. Some of the ships of this period were too large to easily dock in some ports and so you'd use a smaller vessel called a tender to carry passengers and their luggage to/from shore. A tender that operated with Titanic at Cherbourg for its sole voyage is now at the museum in Belfast dedicated to that ship.

This is one of the real ships NDL had at the time, later sold to Russia.

By this point, evaporator technology for distilling drinkable water from seawater was becoming widespread, eliminating one major constraint on sea travel.

A pilot was a local seaman who would navigate the vessel into and out of a port, arriving and departing on their own vessel. They are still a feature of the business today as they know the local waters and even with GPS etc, a regular captain might not be familiar with every local feature.

Apparently, deckchairs could be reserved for the whole journey. This might be a good measure to stop certain people from putting towels on them at pools.

"von" indicates Captain von Heumann is of noble birth. While Germany abolished the privileges of its nobles in 1919, you can still get some people with those names today.

These ships would have also had less luxurious steerage accommodation for the less well-off travellers, especially migrants to the US and other places, which NDL carried a lot of.

Anyway, here's an 1889 brochure from NDL that covers things a lot better than I could:

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Since it's literally the city's name (Bremerhaven is derived from "Bremer Hafen", meaning "Bremen's harbor"), here are some more port views! There are some really big wharfs, a cruise terminal, one of the biggest automobile hubs and one of the longest coherent riverside quays in the world.

It's the motor of the entire industry and city.

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Rostock Port (No. 1)

Rostock Port is a large German port on the Baltic Sea, it is located on the Unterwarnow estuary in the city of Rostock. Most of the port infrastructure is owned by Rostock Port GmbH (until 2016: Hafen-Entwicklungsgesellschaft Rostock mbH "HERO"), a joint venture between the state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (25.1%) and the Hanseatic City of Rostock (74.9%). The port operations are carried out by Euroports Germany GmbH & Co. and other private companies. With a total throughput of 28.8 million tons (2017), the ports of Rostock is the fourth largest German port (after Port of Hamburg, Ports of Bremen and Wilhelmshaven port).

The ports of Rostock include the Rostock seaport located on the east side of the Unterwarnow (built since the 1960s), the chemical port for Yara located east of it at Breitling, the independent freight and fishing port (RFH) in the west side of the Unterwarnow, the cruise terminal at the passenger quay in Warnemünde and other smaller facilities such as the Maritime Industrial Park (MAGEB) and the Quay of Alba Nord north of the RFH and the Rostock city port, where goods are handled no more.

Source: Wikipedia

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The Beagle Channel

Friday 31st January 2020

Brexit Day back home and we were navigating the Beagle Channel en-route to Ushuaia later in the morning.

We were a bit disappointed that our Captain didn’t warn us to get up extra early because when we traversed these waters aboard Arcadia 17 years ago, we had some spectacular views of the glaciers that come right down to the sea long this channel.

But this morning, partly because the ship was too early and partly because of the overcast weather, the best we got were some close-ups of the Italia and Holanda Glaciers as we quietly slipped by at 6.45am.

Still pretty impressive though.

Throughout the morning, as the light improved, so did the view and there was some wonderful scenery along the channel, with Chile still on both sides and eventually,

Argentina on our port side, before our arrival in Ushuaia, Argentina, set against the backdrop of the Darwin Mountains of Tierra del Fuego.

We arrived in Ushuaia at 11am to find 6 other cruise ships in port: Hamburg, L’Austral, Expedition, Bremen,Stella Australis and Hurtigruten’s Midnatsol – a long way from home in Norway!

Interesting fact: I Ironically, back in December 2004, Midnatsol experienced engine failure passing a stretch of sea just a few miles from where we had our experience last year on Viking Sky. n 2004, the captain’s first attempts to anchor the ship failed and passengers were roused at 4am to board the lifeboats but eventually the anchor caught ground and the crew restarted the engines! The cause of the failure that time was a blocked engine inlet!

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If you’re just touching down in the German capital after a long-distance flight, the very last thing you’ll want is to be working out how you’re going to get to your accommodation. Your chauffeur will be waiting for you on your arrival and will take you immediately to your destination.

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Photoshoot of the Week: January 13th-19th 2019 - Jasmin & Yamaha YZF-R3

In Medieval times the Weser River brought Europe to Bremen’s door, and the city grew in stature as a Free Hanseatic City from the 12th Century. Sea trade has always been in Bremen’s blood, and from the 17th century exotic products like coffee started arriving. Germany’s first ever coffee house opened in Bremen in the 17th century, while the Bremen-based coffee merchant Ludwig Roselius was the man who invented decaf coffee at the start of the 1900s. Basically caffeine runs through the veins of Bremen inhabitants. To paraphrase a Norwegian saying, “There’s no such thing as bad coffee, just bad roasting.” The same can be said for motorcycles. Certain machines are preferred by one rider over another, in the same way certain coffee roasts are preferred. Sometimes it’s based on nostalgia or budget, sometimes it’s for purely visceral reasons. Anyway it's not hard to explain why bikers from Bremen just love sportbikes: just like caffeine, riding triggers the release of adrenaline and fuels a new sense of fun, adventure, and practicality. Motorbikes can easily become one of the greatest joys of life, if you're ok with the hyper-aware emotional state it puts you in, and proud Bremen citizen and motor-addicted socialite Jasmin has definetely made her choice, as shown by her beautiful photoshoot in the city outskirt. So relax, take a seat and a cup of coffee and soak up the atmosphere watching her great pics because, as Bremen people can confirm you, the best way to enjoy coffee is by drinking slowly and savoring every drop to the full. Then, when the coffeine will take effect, go suddle up and take your bike for a ride! There's always a Jasmin out there that you can try to reach for a run together, but you'll need to go fast! *** *** The Yamaha YZF-R3 is a modern entry-level sport motorcycle, being introduced only in 2015. With power coming in at approximately 50 HP from the 320cc inline twin lightweight aluminum engine, the R3 is more than capable of hard acceleration, cruising at speed, and track riding, as it has a total wet weight of 368 lbs. For the 2020 model year, Yamaha has also produced a YZF-R3 Monster Energy MotoGP model, which is primarily cosmetic with new panels that reflect the YZR-M1’s aggressive racing lines with Monster sponsorship, including a fuel tank badge with the Monster logo. No engine or systems modifications are made, and it uses the same dual-zone ABS, anti-slip, and traction control systems that the base YZF-R3 uses. The cowl shape of the R3 is the same as the R25. The position varies depending on the color, but the difference is only the logo character of “R25” and “R3”. The vehicle size and weight of the R3 are the same as the R25 (ABS). The engine displacement of the R3 is increasing, but the weight does not change, so it is unlikely that it will not be able to support even if foot grounding is slightly worse. The newly adopted LED dual headlights are glared eye designed and expresses more aggressive. At a glance, the M-shaped duct in the center may be like the intake port of the ram-air, but it plays the role of the radiator air intake. The tail light is LED as usual. The R3 has an LED taillight that is the same as the previous model. The R3 has the same duct in front of the fuel tank as the YZF-R1 fuel tank, moreover, a dent is provided to the fuel tank to make it easier for the rider to face down. The height of the fuel tank is lowered by 20mm compared with the previous model at the position of the top of the fuel tank cap. The machining lightweight top bridge succeeded from the YZF-R1 is also adopted to the YZF-R3. Not only the design of the top bridge, but also the handlebar position has been changed. The handlebar position has also been changed from the upper mount of the top bridge of the previous model to the bottom mount of the top bridge when the R3 got a minor change. By that, the handlebar position has been lowered by 22mm. If you ride with high gears, the acceleration is slow at low rpm and changing gears frequently made a busy impression. That is why the YZF-R3 has no need for frequent gear changes and is comfortable to use, because even if you ride the YZF-R3 with high gear, it will accelerate at low rpm. Even when cruising at high speed, I feel that it is 100km/h at 6,000rpm of 6-speed, which is also lower than the YZF-R25, and I feel that I can afford to ride. Above all, the power is higher with the same body and weight as the 250cc class, which makes the winding a lot more fun, and the power-weight ratio is quite excellent. If the cost and effort of the vehicle inspection clearly do not become a negative factor, the YZF-R3 will be more fun and easier to ride. Since there are many common parts, it is also good that you do not have to worry about customizing. #bikergirl #yamaha #yzfr3 #r3 #r1 #yzf #yamahayzfr3 #yamahayzf #bikergirls #bikergirlsofinstagram #bikelife #superbike #throttlezone #instamoto #instamotogallery #biker #bikerchicks #yamahagirl #revsyourheart #universalbikers #motorcycle #motard #superbikes #ridefast #bikeracing #motosports #motolife #fastbikes #RidinGirlsBlog #racing #motorbike #bikelife #bikersofinstagram #bikerfamily #riderich #girlsonbikes #ridemore #sportbike #sexybiker #bikerchick #bikerlady #motorbike #speed #roadracing #ridingsexy #girlswhoride #motorrad #girlsonbikes #motorrad #motogp #moto #helmetporn #yamahar3 #alpinestars

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Cruise to Various Locations with Princess Cruises' Fleet

Do you keep in mind the Island Princess and also Pacific Princess?

These are cruise liner included in the hit tv collection The Love Watercraft, which is revealed from 1977 up until 1986.

 The travelers, as well as staff, had an amusing and also charming experience inside the ship with elegant and also pleasant facilities.

 If you assume that these ships are simply props on the collection, it is not. These 2 cruise liners are previously possessed by the Princess Cruises, an American cruise ship line. With many significant lines in the cruise ship sector, Princess Cruises differentiates itself by cruising even more globally cruise ship locations.

 It’s Background

 Italia had actually been just one of the initial cruise liner to have modern-day style aspects like lifeboats installed reduced on the ship. It enables the ship engine to be mounted much in the back, developing a roomy public area.

The 7th ship obtained by the Princess is the Kungsholm, a previous Swedish transatlantic lining possessed by Front runner Cruises. It was changed and also reconstructed in Bremen by their designers and also ship developers and also relabelled it as the Sea Princess.

Princess Carla along with the Sunlight Princess gotten by the Princess from the Norwegian Cruise ship Lines is consisted of in a few of the scenes of the tv collection Love Watercraft.

Its 8 ship, the Royal Princess, was the initial purpose-built cruise liner. Its launch in 1984 made it among the initial British guest ships to entirely disregard indoor cabins.

 Princess Rub was never ever made to hold up against exotic traveling problems. Her charter finished for the cruise liner Italia.

 Princess additionally got Sitmar Line in 1988, moving all its ships to the Princess fleet. The Crown Princess as well as Regal Princess went into the cruise ship solution in 1990, finishes the Princess' fleet of 10 luxurious cruise liner.

 Princess' fleet of ships supplies various services such as dancing courses, showing off tasks, day spa therapy facilities, night enjoyments, and also a lot of things to do onboard.

 Their 3rd charter cruise liner is Costa's Carla. It was acquired in the late 1960s promptly after restoring. It was hired to Princess, as well as later on relabelled as Princess Carla.

 Princess, as stated previously, had actually identified itself from various other lines by traveling via preferred locations such as Alaska, the Caribbean, Hawaii, Mexico, as well as the Panama Canal.

 Princess Cruises began its cruise ship procedure in the center of 1960s when Stanley MacDonald leased Princess Patricia which is a ferryboat had by the Canadian Pacific Limited for cruise ships from Los Angeles.

 In 1974, the purchase of the Sea Endeavor and also the Island Endeavor from Front Runner Cruises, which later came to be Pacific Princess as well as Island Princess, strengthened Princess' fleet of ships.

 It verifies itself a service provider of the most effective cruise ship plan feasible for a sensible rate. They are attempting to offer their consumers the deluxe of a cruise ship traveling without setting you back an arm or a leg.

 Princess relabelled Italia as Princess Italia and also utilized her for Alaskan cruise ships from San Francisco. In 1973, the hired was terminated, as well as it returned to Europe to charter cruise ship locations of Costa Cruise ship Line.

 After its establishment, its proprietors and also building contractors stated insolvency. Italia was passed to a financial institution and also subsequently gotten by the Princess.

 There is no factor for you to be tired. You will certainly be obtaining hectic with various tasks as well as at the very same time appreciating it. They additionally provide contemporary as well as standard eating, which indicates you can currently consume your favored food anywhere as well as any time you desire.

 Princess Cruises in the Caribbean

 Their 3rd charter cruise ship is Costa's Carla. It was hired to Princess, and also later on relabelled as Princess Carla.

 They additionally give various selections if you choose traveling with the Caribbean. There are 3 alternatives, to be specific. These alternatives are the Eastern Caribbean, the Southern Caribbean, as well as the Western Caribbean.

 Some points that you can do while on the Caribbean are snorkeling and also diving, taking a drive, and also angling. It is an excellent area where you can do plenty of points or absolutely nothing in any way.

 Princess Cruises will certainly set up coast tours or you might choose to discover the put on your very own.

 There are extra reasons you require to go on-board with the Princess Cruises. Attempt it and also experience unforgettable traveling.

 Several of the areas you can go to while your cruise liner is dock on the pier are Charlotte Amalie as well as St. Maarten. You can additionally see various other components of the Caribbean via the ports of the phone call where you will certainly be going.

 These 2 cruise ship ships are previously possessed by the Princess Cruises, an American cruise ship line. With so lots of significant lines in the cruise ship market, Princess Cruises identifies itself by cruising even more around the world cruise ship locations.

 If you favor traveling with the Caribbean, they likewise offer various selections.

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Christmas Market Cruising in Germany

I usually associate cruising with sunshine but I was really excited about cruising to Germany to see the Christmas Markets, even if it did mean packing all my warmest clothes and a woolly hat! We were sailing on my favourite ship, Black Watch, to Hamburg and Bremen, for our annual girls trip. We had a fairly smooth sailing to Germany and got up early the first morning to take the ships shuttle bus into Hamburg. The market here was laid out in a big square, with stalls all neatly in a row, it quickly became apparent that the correct way to ‘do’ a german Christmas market, is to start with a mug of Gluhwein! (Mulled wine) Early as it was in the day, the cold weather took away any doubts I had about drinking alcohol, and we purchased our little souvenir mugs and started as we meant to go on! The wine tasted nicer than any mulled wine I have had before, but it might just be the setting?

The stalls were very pretty, and bursting with lots of beautiful christmas gifts, baubles, hand made goods etc, thrn dotted in between each stall were food stalls, so we soon got into a little routine of drink, eat, shop, repeat! Our favourite food was little delicious pillows of donut, on long sticks, covered in icing sugar, they were divine! We ate quite a few of these....

The shops surrounding the market were very upmarket designer stores, with guards at the doorways etc, not our cup of tea, so once we had exhausted the market we headed back to the ship.

Our next port of call was Bremen, a smaller, much quainter market, spread out throughout the town, rather than in one square, and with so much character. Again, we collected some really cute little mugs, and tried various drinks, Mulled wine, with added amaretto, mulled rose wine, hot chocolate, the list was endless and the locals do love to drink! Food offerings here were again fantastic, we had potato rosti, caramlised nuts, chocolates, chips with mayonnaise, and of course, sausage!

Evryone we met was so friendly, Germany really is a fantastic place to visit.

We were even lucky enough to meet the big man himself, Santa!

We took a walk along the historic river district, which had even more stalls, in a much more traditional style, then eventually took the bus back to the ship, Black Watch looked really lovely with the snowy backdrop, and we were welcomed back warmly and ready for a nice nap before dinner! This was a truly memorable cruise and one I would do again in a heartbeat.

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Scientists Are Stuck on an Ice-Locked Ship in the Arctic Due to Coronavirus

For the past six months, the German icebreaker Polarstern has been drifting through the central Arctic Ocean, intentionally frozen into the ice. A rotating cast of hundreds of scientists from all over the world have been traveling to and from the vessel for months at a time to assist with the MOSAiC expedition, an enormous polar science effort aimed at improving our understanding of the Arctic environment in a time of rapid, human-caused climate change.

The year-long expedition’s next crew rotation was set to fly to the Polarstern from Svalbard, Norway, in mid-April. But thanks to a global pandemic, that plan has been dashed. Now, the scientists currently aboard the Polarstern are preparing to stay put for approximately six weeks longer than they had planned in order to keep the ship’s myriad research projects alive.

Earlier this month, the government of Svalbard—a remote island archipelago in the Arctic Ocean—closed its borders to outsiders amid growing concerns over Covid-19. As a result, roughly 100 scientists and support staff who had planned to relieve the crew that’s been aboard the Polarstern since February no longer have a flight. MOSAiC’s organizers are now scrambling to pull together a contingency plan, which will likely involve ferrying the next group of scientists north with a resupply shipment aboard a giant icebreaker vessel.

“There’s no way to carry out these flights for the crew rotation,” said Markus Rex, an atmospheric scientist at the Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research and expedition leader for MOSAiC. “That has a major impact on how we plan the expedition.”

As the coronavirus pandemic ripples around the globe, travel by air, land, and sea has been brought to a standstill. This is upending countless scientific field expeditions, including planned trips to Greenland this spring, NASA-led Earth science airborne campaigns, and dozens of oceanographic research cruises using ships that are part of the U.S. Academic Research Fleet, which was ordered to stand down earlier this month.

MOSAiC scientists face the challenge of continuing a massive international research endeavor that can’t easily be stopped. As organizers navigate travel restrictions in order to keep crews of scientists and support staff rotating on and off the Polarstern and ensure a steady influx of new supplies, they’re also doing everything in their power to prevent a deadly virus from spreading to the vessel, which is difficult to reach by air and takes weeks to reach by sea.

The first signs of trouble came earlier this month, when a researcher who had planned to participate in survey flights out of Svalbard to support MOSAiC tested positive for the virus. That caused MOSAiC to delay its spring airborne campaign, and subsequently, the campaign was canceled as the Norweigan government and local authorities on Svalbard began restricting international travel.The MOSAiC team is exploring the possibility of extending a series of planned summertime flights to compensate, although Rex warned that it’s “too early to say what will happen to the summer phase.”

The cancellation of these survey flights, which were going to study Arctic ice, cloud, and aerosol properties, are a disappointment, but they don’t compromise the campaign’s core scientific mission.

The bigger concern now is what to do about the crew that was supposed to link up with the Polarstern in April, relieving the roughly 100 scientists and support staff currently aboard. Fortunately, the Polarstern is in no danger of running out of supplies anytime soon, and the scientists currently on board are continuing to go about their day-to-day activities.

“People on Polarstern are safe, they are in a virus free environment, they have all the provisions they need,” Rex said. “They are focusing on science.”

The contingency plan now taking shape involves chartering an icebreaker vessel to ferry the relief crew north after everyone’s undergone a 14-day quarantine and tested negative for the coronavirus. Organizers are currently in talks with “a number of icebreakers,” Rex said, as well as authorities in various partner countries to determine where their vessel can ship off from.

Or, instead of chartering an entirely new ship, the team could potentially accelerate the expedition’s next resupply cruise. MOSAiC had already chartered the Swedish icebreaker Oden to ship north and rendezvous with the Polarstern in June. Organizers are now looking into the possibility of bumping that resupply shipment forward to approximately mid-May, and sending the relief crew along with it. In that scenario, the team currently aboard Polarstern would spend about six extra weeks on the ship, and instead of three more crew changes between now and September, there would be two.

While this would mean leaving behind some scientists who had planned to participate in MOSAiC, Rex says it’s likely that a number of researchers will not be able to go anyway due to travel restrictions from their institutions or countries.

Another challenge MOSAiC’s organizers have been wrestling with is disembarking an outgoing expedition of scientists who left the Polarstern in early March bound for Tromso, Norway. Until very recently, it looked as if these researchers—traveling aboard the Russian icebreaker Kapitan Dranitsyn—would need to find a new port due to Norway’s coronavirus travel restrictions. But recently, the team got some good news: The Norweigan authorities are granting the Kapitan Dranitsyn an exception so that its crew can disembark and head to a nearby airport.

“We will bring them from a bus transport from the port to a shuttle flight back to Germany,” Rex said. “And we have support from the German authorities to travel to Bremen and back to their home countries from Bremen. Obviously that was quite a bit of work to make that happen.”

As the MOSAiC mission soldiers on, other scientists are coming to terms with the fact that their own expeditions, some of which have been in the works for years, are going to have to wait as well.

These include a University of Rhode Island-led campaign to study symbiotic relationships between deep sea animals and bacteria at hydrothermal vents in the southwest Pacific in April, and EXPORTS, a NASA-led effort to study ocean carbon cycling that includes over a dozen research projects and was set to kick off next month in the North Atlantic.

Both cruises were called off earlier this month amidst the U.S. Academic Research Fleet’s 30-day suspension, and both are now anticipating significant delays.

“We don’t know when this cruise will be rescheduled,” said Roxanne Beinart, an assistant professor at the University of Rhode Island leading the deep sea campaign, noting that it took several years for her team to secure both the vessel and underwater robots needed to carry out their planned field work. “Even if the pandemic miraculously resolves very quickly, it could be easily a year before we get back on the schedule.”

As for EXPORTS, it’s currently unclear whether it can be resuscitated in the exact manner as was planned for this year, partly because one of the participating research vessels, the R/V Atlantis, wasn’t scheduled to be in the Atlantic in 2021. Science lead Dave Siegel of the University of California, Santa Barbara said the team has reached out to various European partners to see if a different ship can be secured. But ultimately, some science might have to be sacrificed for the sake of expediency, since a key goal of the campaign was to provide data in support of an $800-million NASA ocean satellite slated to launch in 2022.

“Science is going to go forward,” Siegel said, noting that an initial 2018 campaign in the North Pacific was quite successful. “But having the opportunity to get all the resources in the same place at the same time? I don’t know if we’ll be able to do that again.”

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10 Largest Container Shipping Companies In The World

It won’t be a stretch to say that the container ships form the backbone of world commerce. These ships enable the movement of a vast amount of goods to be through the ocean at a quickly and cheaply.

Container ships are cargo ships that move their load in truck-size standardized containers of freight. They revolutionized the way goods are transported across the globe.

Largest container shipping companies in the world

Following are some of the largest container shipping companies in the world.

1) Evergreen Marine Corporation

  Evergreen Marine Corporation is a container shipping and transportation company from Taiwan. It has its headquarters in Luzhu District, Taoyuan City, Taiwan. Evergreen corporation mostly operates between the trading routes from the Far East to North America, Central America as well as the Caribbean. It also operates from the far East to northern Europe and the Mediterranean. Other routes include Europe to the eastern coast of America, the Far East to Australia, Mauritius, South Africa, Asia, and South America.

Evergreen Marine Corporation has more than 150 ships in its fleet. Over the world, it operates on 240 ports spread over 80 countries. It is the fifth largest company of its type. Founded in 1968, the company presently employees more than 3000 people.

The ships from this company are usually painted green with the word evergreen written in block capitals in white.

The company belongs to the evergreen group of shipping transportation and other acquainted industries in Taiwan.  The current chairman of the corporation is Chang, Cheng-Yung.

In 2018 it had a revenue of 4.26 billion dollars. Some of its divisions include Uniglory Marine Corp. (Taiwan), Evergreen UK Ltd. (UK, -2007) and Italia Marittima S.p.A. (Italy, -2007).

2) NYK

NYK is a Japanese shipping company. It stands for Nippon Yusen Kabushiki Kaisha. NYK is considered one of the largest and oldest shipping company in the world. It was founded on September 29, 1885. At the moment, it is 133 years old. Its headquarters are in Tokyo, Japan.

The company has more than 800 ships. These ships include container ships, tankers, woodchip carriers, bulk carriers, reefer vessels, LNG carriers as well as cruise ships. Yasumi Kudo is the chairman of the company with Tadaaki Naito as its president. The company employs more than 33,000 people.

It has a net income of about 400 million dollars.  Most of the ships in the company are named after flowers, stars, constellations, old Japanese provinces etc.

In the first half of the 20th century, most of the merchant ships in Japan belonged to the Nippon Yusen Kabushiki Kaisha. Their ocean routes included those to Vancouver in Canada, Seattle, Hawaii and San Francisco in the United States of America, India and the Indian Ocean, Europe, Australia, and New Zealand.

Locally, there are 78 home seaports out of which 38 seaports are open to foreign trade. The most important of these are Yokohama, Kobe, and Osaka.

3) Maersk

Maersk is a business industry which is involved in activities like transport, logistics, and several energy sectors. It is from Denmark. Its full name is A.P. Moller–Maersk Group. The company has its headquarters in Copenhagen, Denmark.

The company is one of the largest shipping companies in the whole world and also quite often considered as the largest operator of container ships and supply vessels. It employs more than 88000 people and has nearly a thousand subsidiaries spread across 130 countries.

Some of the key people in the company are Søren Skou who is the CEO of the group and Claus V. Hemmingsen who is the Vice CEO.

This company is 114 years old. It was founded in 1904 by Peter Mærsk Møller and his son Arnold Peder Møller In 2016 the company split into two separate divisions namely transport and logistics & energy. It is thought to have as many as 786 vessels that it operates.

In 2017 the company had a revenue of 35 billion dollars.

The logo of the company is a square with a blue background with a seven-pointed white star on it. It was given by P. M. Møller who was a very religious Christian.

4) Hapag-Lloyd

Hapag Lloyd Container Stack Train

Hapag-Lloyd AG is an international transportation company based in Germany. It was formed in 1970 by the merging of two companies namely Hamburg America Line (HAPAG) and Norddeutscher Lloyd (NDL) or North German Lloyd (NGL). Hamburg America Line (HAPAG) was founded in 1847 while Norddeutscher Lloyd (NDL) was formed in 1856. The headquarters of the company are in Hamburg, Germany.

Some of the key people in the company are Rolf Habben Jansen who is the CEO, Nicolás Burr that is the CFO, Anthony James Firmin, the COO etc.

The company employs more than 13,000 people. It also has more than 130 ships which cater to over 5 million containers all over the world.

Hapag-Lloyd AG is one of the most renowned shipping and transportation companies in the whole world. In terms of capacity, it ranks number 5 in the world. It operates on trade routes across South America, Transatlantic, the Middle East, trans-pacific trades etc. Some of the other services that the company provides are international cruises and private jet services to the customers.

Some of the current, as well as former cruise ships of the company, are MS Europa, MS Europa 2, MS Bremen, MS Columbus etc.

5) MSC

  MSC Tomoko

  The Mediterranean Shipping Company which is of an abbreviated as the MSC is one of the largest container shipping companies in the whole world. It is a Swiss company which has its headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland.

MSC has about 471 container vessels which makes it the second largest shipping company in terms of the number of container vessels.

It operates more than 480 offices spread across more than 150 countries over the world. MSC also employees more than 24000 people. It operates on more than 200 different trade routes with over 315 ports. The company operates in almost all of the major parts of the world. The most important port of the company is Antwerp in Belgium.

MSC launched the world’s largest container ship called the MSC Oscar in January 2015. It has a capacity of 19,224 twenty-foot equivalent units or TEU. A TEU is a unit used to measure the capacity of any container ship. The whole company has a capacity of more than 2,435,000 twenty-foot equivalent units.

Some of the most important ships of the company are MSC Oscar, MSC Beatrice, MSC Bruxelles, MSC Camille, MSC Geneva, MSC Sabrina, MSC Chicago, MSC Leigh, MSC Zoe etc.

6) APL

American President Lines

The American President Lines or the APL is a transportation and shipping company. The company along with its parent company called the CMA CGM is the world’s third largest container shipping company. This company is more than 170 years old. It has its headquarters in Singapore and Rockville, Maryland in the United States of America. The company was originally a subsidiary of another company known as the Neptune Orient Lines or NOL. The NOL is an international transportation and logistics company which is based in France.

Founded in 1848, APL’s current chief executive officer of the company is Nicolas Sartini. The company employees more than 5000 people and also has a revenue of over 4.6 billion dollars. The company mainly operates in North America and Asia.

It provides more than 80 weekly services the main of which is container shipping. APL also has a container ship fleet which has more than 153 container vessels. It operates at 10 different strategic points around the world. These include Dutch harbor in Alaska, the United States, Kobe and Yokohama in Japan, Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam, Laem Chabang in Thailand, Qingdao in China, Nhava Sheva in India and Kaohsiung in Taiwan.

7) CSCL

CSCL

The China Shipping Container Lines Co., Ltd was the Chinese Marine shipping company based in Shanghai. It was founded in 1997. CSCL does not work independently today but is a subsidiary of a company called COSCO.

In 2013 the container shipping market became crippled because of various factors such as weak global GDP, sluggish global trade growth, muted demand for container shipping etc. All of this cost a downfall of the container shipping industry. this also led to financial instability when it came to shipping businesses. Hence the company merged with a Chinese government-owned company called COSCO in 2015 and now is a subsidiary of it.

The two companies together now one of the largest container shipping companies in the whole world. The aim to expand their capacity to more than 2 million TEU which would make than the third largest container shipping company in the world.

The company has several ports all around the world with 30 ports being situated in south China and north China itself.

It has experienced rapid growth in recent years and aims to grow even more in the future. Thus, the company seems to have a bright future in the container shipping industry.

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8) COSCO

COSCO

China Ocean Shipping (Group) Company often abbreviated as COSCO is a Chinese transportation and logistics company. The company has its headquarters in Ocean Plaza which is situated in the Xicheng District in Beijing.

The company has 1114 ships, which include a fleet of ships with the capacity of 1,580,000 twenty-foot equivalent units (TEU), dry bulk vessels and a tanker fleet which contains over 120 vessels. It operates across 40 countries all over the world.

The company operates at around 1000 different ports all over the world. COSCO is also the fourth largest shipping company in the world in terms of the number of vessels. The company expects to increase the number of ships and its fleet by 400 very soon as it has bought a rival company from Hong Kong for 6.3 billion dollars.

The China Ocean Shipping (Group) Company was founded on April 27, 1961. Today, it is 57 years ago.

COSCO also has several subsidiary companies. The number of subsidiaries that the company are estimated to be more than 300. Most of them operate in China, Japan, and Singapore. These subsidiary companies mainly deal with businesses such as shipbuilding, ship repairing, container manufacturing, terminal operations, trade, finance, information technology, and even real estate.

9) Hanjin

  Hanjin

  Hanjin Shipping Co., Ltd. is a former South Korean logistics and container transport company. It was one of South Korea is biggest shipping companies and one of the top 10 shipping and logistics companies in the world in terms of shipping capacity. It has its headquarters in South Korea.

Founded on 16 May 1977 the company rose quickly before going bankrupt. Hanjin was declared as dysfunctional on 17 February 2017.

It had a fleet of nearly 60 ships. This list included container ships, LNG carriers, and bulk. It transported and more than a hundred million tonnes of cargo every year. Hanjin also operated around the world and head offices in many different countries.

It has a capacity of 3.7 million TEU. The company also has several dockyards. It on a total of 14 dockyards which span across countries such as South Korea, United States of America, Japan, Spain, Taiwan, Vietnam, and Belgium. The company also has several subsidiaries of its own.

The company was also the first ever to introduce a class carrier ship with a capacity of 10,000 TEU which travel from Asia to Europe.

On 17 February 2017 South Korean courts declared the company as bankrupt. The shipping terminals of the country were internationally distributed.

10) CMA CGM

CMA CGM Hamburg

When translated in English the acronym of the company stands for Maritime Freighting Company – General Maritime Company. The CMA CGM is a container shipping and transportation company based in France. It is France’s leading company of its kind. It is also one of the largest worldwide shipping groups. CMA CGM has a total of 200 different shipping routes with more than 420 ports spread across 150 countries. Its headquarters are based in Marseille France. its North American headquarters are based in Norfolk, Virginia in the United States of America.

It was founded by Jacques Saadé in 1978. Jacques Saadé is also one of the key people in the company as its chairman. Rodolphe Saadé is the CEO of the company. It employs more than 29000 people.

In 2018, the company had a revenue of 21.1 billion dollars.

The shipping containers for this company are painted in dark blue with the words CMA CGM painted in white.

The CMA CGM also runs a foundation called the CMA CGM Corporate Foundation for Children which was started in 2005. Its main objective is to improve the well-being of children. Etiquettes to improve the everyday lives of sick children, promoting equal opportunities for underprivileged children and to encourage the personal development of differently abled children.

As you have guessed the world has moved a great deal from the revolutionary clipper ships of the yore to modern container ships but the fascination for the largest and fastest remains teh same in both seafarers and the general public.

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Two cargo ships collided in the Mediterranean Sea near the island of Corsica on Sunday, causing a leak that is most likely fuel, coastal authorities said.

The Ulysse, operated by the Tunisian operator CTN, ran into the Cyprus-based CLS Virgina while it was anchored about 30 kilometres (20 miles) off the northern tip of the island at around 7:30 a.m. local time, the regional naval authority said in a statement.

Read more: Time to clean up the ocean garbage dump

No one was injured but “the collision caused considerable damage, with an opening several meters long in the CLS Virginia’s hull,” the statement said.

The spill created a trail of pollution 4 kilometers long and several hundred meters wide, heading away from Corsica to the northwest, toward the French and Italian mainland, the statement continued.

10 years of shipping through the frozen north

Let there be sea

Once, only explorers in search of adventure or scientific discovery braved the icy heart of the Arctic. But the ice is vanishing. August 29, 2008 marked a turning point: For the first time, merchant ships could navigate both the Northeast Passage and Northwest Passage, without icebreakers. This ship-friendly period in summer has been getting longer and longer ever since.

10 years of shipping through the frozen north

Shortcut from the Atlantic to the Pacific

The 6,500-kilometer-long (4,000-mile) Northeast Passage leads from Asia, past Russia and Norway, and connects the Atlantic with the Pacific Ocean. The slightly shorter Northwest Passage runs past Canada toward New York. Both routes cross the Bering Strait and the Arctic Ocean. This is only possible if ice cover does not block the way.

10 years of shipping through the frozen north

Taking the long road

To get from Rotterdam to Tokyo, ships currently pass India and go through the Suez Canal in Egypt. That’s about 6,000 kilometers longer than the route through the Northeast Passage. Ships travel to the US East Coast from Asia via the Pacific and through the Panama Canal. Here, too, taking the Northwest Passage cuts over 4,000 kilometers off the journey.

10 years of shipping through the frozen north

Arctic pioneers

In 2009, the Bremen-based Beluga shipping company sent two German heavy-lift carriers through the Northeast Passage for the first time. Since then, shipping traffic in the region has increased. Still, Burkhard Lemper of the Institute of Shipping Economics and Logistics in Bremen says the Arctic Ocean is not (yet) heavily frequented — if only because the route is only open at certain times of year.

10 years of shipping through the frozen north

Open water

No climate scientist can say for sure how global warming will progress around the North Pole. But, “Everyone agrees the Arctic will be ice-free within the next 30 to 50 years,” says sea-ice expert Christian Haas of the Alfred Wegener Institute in Bremerhaven, Germany. Researchers describe the Arctic as ice-free when ice cover falls below 1 million square kilometers in summer.

10 years of shipping through the frozen north

Disturbing the peace

Biologists fear for the unique wildlife in the Arctic as shipping traffic increases. Beluga whales, Greenland whales and walruses, for example, could be a risk, US researchers say in a study published by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. They studied 80 populations of marine mammals and found that more than half are resident along the Northeast or Northwest Passage.

10 years of shipping through the frozen north

Very special residents

Scientists fear that narwhals in particular could suffer from shipping traffic in the Arctic Ocean. The marine mammals stay close to coastal pack ice. The males are easily recognizable by their helical tusk, which can become up to three meters long. This is a life-size replica in the Ozeanum Oceanographic Museum in Stralsund, Germany.

10 years of shipping through the frozen north

Antarctica as a model

Researchers and environmentalists are calling for guidelines on Arctic shipping. For example, ships should avoid the whales’ main hunting grounds, fit sailing schedules around their migration, and keep noise and speed in check. “This does not yet exist in the Arctic — that’s the big difference from Antarctica,” Greenpeace biologist Christian Bussau says.

10 years of shipping through the frozen north

The calm before the storm?

According to Greenpeace expert Bussau, only 50 ships pass through the Northeast and Northwest Passage each year. The German Shipowners’ Association says the figure is in the double-digit range. But Bussau says time is of the essence: “In the long run, there will be a lot going on in the Arctic.” So far, there are no environmental regulations for shipping in the region.

Author: Brigitte Osterath (hf)

Spill likely fuel

Officials said they were yet to identify the liquid, but a source close to the inquiry told French news agency AFP it was probably leaking “from one of the fuel tanks.”

The Tunisian ship “was maybe going too fast compared to its ability to react,” the source told AFP.

Read more: Almost all German lakes and rivers face ecological crisis

According to the CTN’s published shipping schedule, the Ulysse was traveling from Genoa in Italy to the Tunisian port at Rades near Tunis.

A tugboat has been sent to the scene and the French navy has also provided a vessel specialised in containing and cleaning up pollution spills.

Italy has also offered its assistance as part of the Ramogepol accord between France, Italy and Monaco to jointly intervene in cases of maritime pollution.

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Tourist attraction

Cozumel is one of the most popular destinations for cruise ship tourism. As a result, the island’s harbor is large – up to seven ships can anchor here at the same time. They bring five million visitors a year to an island, which has less than 100,000 inhabitants.

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4,000 passengers on board

Most of the tourists come from the United States. About 4,000 of them fit on a single one of the huge ships. The pier is called Puerta Maya. It is designed as a shopping mile for cruise ship tourists.

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Biggest business

Most people working on Cozumel depend on cruise tourism in one way or another, says the security chief of the pier, José Nieto. Therefore, it’s almost impossible to imagine the island without them.

Giants on the water and below

Second largest reef in the world

The island’s coral reefs are part of the Mesoamerican Barrier Reef, the second largest reef system in the world. Despite the ships, it is still in good shape: Underwater visibility is excellent, more than 300 species of fish and unique corals live here.

Giants on the water and below

Main attraction: Diving

Diving instructor Raymundo Ramirez says that only few tourists know how to behave in the fragile ecosystem of a coral reef. He himself only takes small groups below the surface, giving precise instructions so that the corals are not damaged.

Giants on the water and below

Art and history

The people of Cozumel are ambivalent about the island’s reputation as a hotspot for cruise ship tourists. They would rather attract day visitors from the mainland and backpackers who are interested in the culture and the Mayan history of the island.

Author: Klaus Esterluss

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Norwegian authorities said a polar bear on Saturday attacked and injured a polar bear guard who was leading tourists off a cruise ship on an Arctic archipelago. The polar bear was shot dead by another employee, the cruise company said. The Joint Rescue Coordination for Northern Norway tweeted that the attack occurred when the tourists from the MS Bremen cruise ship landed on the most northern island of the Svalbard archipelago, a region between mainland Norway and the North Pole that is known for its remote terrain, glaciers, reindeer and polar bears. The German Hapag Lloyd Cruises company, which operates the MS Bremen, told The Associated Press that two polar bear guards from their ship went on the island and one of them "was attacked by a polar bear and injured on his head." The polar bear was then shot dead "in an act of self-defense" by the second guard, spokeswoman Negar Etminan said. The injured man was taken by helicopter to the town of Longyearbyen on Spitsbergen island. He was not identified and no further information was given on him. Polar bear guards travel with most cruises in the Arctic Credit:  Peter Bischoff "He was flown out, was responsive, and is currently undergoing medical treatment," Etminan said, adding that the victim was not in a life-threatening condition. She said all cruise ships traveling in the northern region are obliged to have polar bear guards aboard. Svalbard - locator map Arctic tourism to the region has risen sharply in the last few years and is now in high season. A Longyearbyen port schedule showed that 18 cruise ships will be docking at the Arctic port in the next week. 

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A polar bear has been shot dead after injuring a guard working for cruise ship tourists visiting an Arctic archipelago in Norway.

Tourists from the cruise ship MS Bremen landed on the northernmost island of the Svalbard archipelago, a region between mainland Norway and the North Pole known for its glaciers, reindeer and polar bears.

A spokeswoman for the German Hapag Lloyd Cruises company, which operates the MS Bremen, said that two polar bear guards from their ship went on the island and one of them “was attacked by a polar bear and injured on his head”.

The polar bear was then shot dead “in an act of self-defence” by the second guard, Negar Etminan said.

Arctic tourism has risen sharply in the last few years and it is now the high season. A Longyearbyen port schedule showed that 18 cruise ships would be docking in the next week.

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Un ours polaire tué après avoir attaqué un employé de navire de croisière

Assurance Norvège - Les autorités norvégiennes ont déclaré qu'un ours polaire a attaqué samedi et blessé un garde d'ours polaire qui conduisait des touristes à bord d'un navire de croisière dans un archipel arctique. L'ours polaire a été abattu par un autre employé, a précisé la compagnie de croisière. La coordination de sauvetage pour la Norvège du Nord a tweeté que l'attaque a eu lieu lorsque les touristes du MS Bremen ont atterri sur l'île la plus septentrionale de l'archipel Svalbard, une région entre la Norvège continentale et le pôle Nord, connue pour ses glaciers , rennes et ours polaires. (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); La compagnie allemande Hapag Lloyd Cruises, qui exploite le MS Bremen, a déclaré à l'Associated Press que deux gardes de l'ours polaire sont allés sur l'île et que l'un d'entre eux avait été attaqué par un ours polaire et blessé à la tête. L'ours polaire a ensuite été abattu "dans un acte d'autodéfense" par le deuxième garde, a déclaré la porte-parole Negar Etminan. L'homme blessé a été transporté par hélicoptère dans la ville de Longyearbyen sur l'île de Spitsbergen. Il n'a pas été identifié et aucune information supplémentaire n'a été donnée sur lui. (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); "Il a été transporté par avion, réagissait et subit actuellement un traitement médical", a déclaré M. Etminan, ajoutant que la victime n'était pas en danger de mort. Elle a dit que tous les navires de croisière qui voyagent dans la région du nord sont obligés d'avoir des gardes d'ours polaires à bord. Le tourisme arctique dans la région a fortement augmenté au cours des dernières années et est maintenant en haute saison. Un calendrier des ports de Longyearbyen a montré que 18 navires de croisière accosteront au port de l'Arctique la semaine prochaine. Plus tôt ce mois-ci, un ours polaire aurait tué un père de 31 ans qui protégeait ses enfants dans le territoire le plus septentrional du Nunavut au Nunavut. Les résidents ont déclaré que les observations d'ours sont devenues plus fréquentes à Arviat, car les animaux ont moins peur des humains.

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European Ports Continue to Adopt Shore Power for Marine Use

Challenged to meet increasing environmental concerns and address the emissions levels from ships on dock, a growing number of ports are exploring or expanding shore power alternatives. While supporters believe that shore-to-ship power holds the potential to virtually eliminate ship emissions in ports, critics point to the lack of infrastructure investment, government support, and the potential of simply transferring the environmental impact from ship to shore as the power must still be created.

Ports in Europe and North America have been among the leaders in the technology known as cold ironing. The trend continues to gain momentum at ports ranging in size from the largest to regional ports in especially environmentally sensitive locations. Two additional European ports recently announced plans to proceed with shore power projects.

The Senate in Bremen, Germany recently resolved to create comprehensive additional shore power supply facilities at the ports of Bremen. The plan calls for eight shore power supply units for maritime shipping and two additional connections for inland shipping. Under this plan, by the end of 2023, two shore power supply units will be installed for maritime shipping in the container throughput area in the city of Bremen, another one in the ro-ro port area, and one at the cruise terminal. At Fischereihafen in Bremerhaven, there will be three facilities for government vessels and one for research shipping.

Bremen’s current shore power capabilities are focused mostly on the port and service vessels as well as inland. Two additional facilities for inland shipping at Bremen’s Industriehafen will be added under the new plan so that all the relevant mooring points for river traffic will be equipped with shore power connections.

“The creation of shore power connections for maritime shipping is another step forward and an important milestone in our endeavors to become a green, climate-neutral port,” said Dr. Claudia Schilling, Senator for Science and Ports. “Accordingly, the electricity for these permanently installed shore power connections will come entirely from renewable energy sources.”

The total investments for all ten new connections will amount to 32.4 million euros, half of which will be funded by the Federal Land of Bremen, the other half by the federal government with an administrative agreement to be signed between the federal and state governments.

Calling for ship owners to design and operate more eco-friendly fleets, the senator said, “We can only achieve our goal of clean shipping if everyone involved makes a concerted effort. The more ports that provide shore power, the more cost-effective it will be for the shipping companies to adapt their vessels.” 

The pristine environment in port of Flam, Norway

  One of the smaller, more specialized ports serving the cruise industry the Port of Flam, Norway is also working to meet the more stringent emissions requirements of the cruise industry by offering hydropower to ships while alongside the port.

Enova SF, owned by Norway’s Ministry of Climate and Environment, recently agreed to provide a third of the cost for a project that includes an underwater cable directly from the hydropower station in Aurland to Flåm. This cable will accommodate future demands and open for development and innovation. 

“This was big and important news for us,” said Tor Mikkel Tokvam, Port Director for Port of Flåm. “This shows that we are ready for a changeover. Now we need to find a balance when it comes to the OPS facility and the opportunities it gives us.”

The port director highlights that the project aligns with the regulations for the World Heritage Fjords set by the Norwegian Maritime Authority and the Norwegian Parliaments, which seeks to make the world heritage fjords emission-free in 2026

The port estimates by establishing its OPS facility, that emissions from cruise ships will be reduced by 75 percent while also contributing to Flam’s overall supply of electricity.

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Polar bear killed after attack on Arctic cruise ship guard in Norway

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BERLIN — Norwegian authorities said a polar bear on Saturday attacked and injured a polar bear guard who was leading tourists off a cruise ship on an Arctic archipelago. The polar bear was shot dead by another employee, the cruise company said.

The Joint Rescue Coordination for Northern Norway tweeted that the attack occurred when the tourists from the MS Bremen cruise ship landed on the most northern island of the Svalbard archipelago, a region between mainland Norway and the North Pole that is known for its remote terrain, glaciers, reindeer and polar bears.

The German Hapag Lloyd Cruises company, which operates the MS Bremen, told The Associated Press that two polar bear guards from their ship went on the island and one of them “was attacked by a polar bear and injured on his head.”

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The polar bear was then shot dead “in an act of self-defence” by the second guard, spokeswoman Negar Etminan said.

The injured man was taken by helicopter to the town of Longyearbyen on Spitsbergen island. He was not identified and no further information was given on him.

“He was flown out, was responsive, and is currently undergoing medical treatment,” Etminan said, adding that the victim was not in a life-threatening condition.

She said all cruise ships travelling in the northern region are obliged to have polar bear guards on board.

Arctic tourism to the region has risen sharply in the last few years and is now in high season. A Longyearbyen port schedule showed that 18 cruise ships will be docking at the Arctic port in the next week.

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