Prospects of the Transarctic Route - Impact and Opportunities
Organised by the Icelandic Government
- Contribution to the Arctic Council's Arctic Marine Shipping Assessment -
Supported by Icelandic Stake Holders:
Eimskip, Samskip, Glitnir, Landsbankinn & Kaupþing
Akureyri, March 27 - 28, 2007 at Hotel KEA
March 27 - Arctic Development
(Flight from Reykjavík at 07:45, Arrival at Akureyri at 08.30 Opening of Conference 10:00)
09:00 - 10:00
Registration, tea and coffee
10:00
Address by H.E. Mrs. Valgerður Sverrisdóttir, Minister for Foreign Affairs
Keynote Speech
Lawson W. Brigham
Chair of the Arctic Marine Shipping Assessment
10:40
Presentation:
Ice Monitoring and Ice Decrease
Ola Johannessen / Stein Sandven
The Nansen Center, Director of Special Projects
Navigation through Ice
Mikko Niini
Aker Arctic Technology
The Politics of Arctic Shipping
Willy Östreng
Ocean Futures & Centre for Advanced Study
11:40
Panel Discussions:
Future research and monitoring
Opened with an introduction by Björn Erlingsson, Physical Oceanographer
Panelists: Björn Erlingsson, Stein Sandven, Mikko Niini, Willy Östreng
12:30 - 14:00
Lunch at the invitation of Akureyri City and the Port of Akureyri.
14:00
Presentations:
Emergency prevention and reaction
Mark Meza
US Coastal Guard
Monitoring of Shipping Activities in the Icelandic Waters
Gísli Viggósson
Icelandic Martime Administration
15.00
Panel Discussions:
Improved emergency prevention and reaction
Introduction by Ásgrímur L. Ásgrímsson, Icelandic Coastguard and Kristján Geirsson, Environment Agency of Iceland
Panelists: Ásgrímur L. Ásgrímsson, Kristján Geirsson, Mark Meza, Gísli Viggósson.
16:00
Preparations for a "dinner excursion"
16:10
Excursion to Myvatn
Godafoss Waterfall - Lake Myvatn - “Hotsprings of Hell”
19.30 Dinner at Hotel Reynihlid, sponcered by Eimskip
Dinner Comments on Transarctic communication
Lars Kulerud
Rector of the University of the Arctic
21.00 Departure for Akureyri
22.30 Arrival in Akureyri
March 28 – Transarctic Shipping
08:30
Presentations:
Legal Considerations
Douglas Brubaker
The Fridtjof Nansen Institute
The Russian link via the Northern Sea Route
Contemporary situation on the Northern Sea Route
- Rules of navigation on NSR. Icebreaking fees
Nikolay Monko
Federal Agency for Marine and River Transport, Ministry of Transport of the RF: "".
Operation of Icebreakers and Ice-class vessels on the
Nikolay Babich
Murmansk Shipping Company:
European maritime Policy Perspective (tbc)
Malcom Colling, Maritime Policy Task Force
Directorate General for Fisheries and Maritime Affairs of EC
The Viability of Transarctic Nuclear Shipping
Jose Femenia
Department Head, US Merchant Marine Academy
10:30 - 10:50
Coffee / Tea Time
10:50
Industry Perspective
Guðmundur Nikulásson
Executive Vice President, Domestic Icelandic,
11:10
Panel Discussion
The viability of transarctic transportation
Panelists: Lawson Brigham, Douglas Brubaker, Malcolm Colling, Jose Feminia, Guðmundur Nikulásson
12:20 - 13:30
Lunch
13:30
Presentations:
Transportation Trends
Afred Baird
Head, TRI Maritime Research Group, Napier University
Arctic Shuttle Container Link from Alaska US to Europe
Mead Treadwell
Commissioner, US Arctic Research Commission
The Russian Vision of a Transarctic Shuttle Route
V.V. Mihajilichenko
Non-commercial Partnership of the Coordination of Northern Sea Route Usage
Impact on Socio- economic Trends
Trausti Valsson
Professor of Planning, University of Iceland
Author of the book: "How
the World will Change - with Global Warming"
Link to his book
15:30 - 15:50
Coffee / Tea break
16:00 - 17:00
Summing up and discussions
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