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The Joint Norwegian-Russian Environmental Status Report for the Barents Sea

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Maritime transport

Maritime transport (Introduction)

The Barents Sea is used by a variety of vessels type e.g. fishing vessels, tankers and bulk carriers, military vessels, other cargo vessels and passenger ships. The volume of shipping in the area will be influenced by the development in the petroleum industry in the area and the future possible cargo shipping route through the north-east passage .

Last Updated ( Wednesday, 03 February 2010 13:19 )

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Management

The management of maritime transport is strictly regulated trough a combination of International legislations, conventions and standards and national comprehensive range of preventive safety measures.

Last Updated ( Friday, 04 December 2009 13:57 )

Management - International regulation

The field of shipping is extensively international. Global legislations, conventions and standards that regulate shipping are therefore desirable and play a vigorous part in harmonizing the regulation transverse the national regulation. Examples of international organisations are: IMO (International Maritime Organisation), ILO (the UN’s international workers organisation), EMSA (the European Marit...

Last Updated ( Friday, 22 January 2010 13:19 )

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Management - Regulations in Norway

Management - Regulations in Norway

Norway has implemented a comprehensive range of preventive safety measures in its coastal waters by establishing and operating maritime infrastructure and services and has instituted a government oil spill response system to prevent or limit negative impacts of incidents and accidents at sea. The maritime infrastructure consists of lighthouses, buoys, signs and the physical improvement of channels...

Last Updated ( Friday, 22 January 2010 13:19 )

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Management - Regulations in Russia

In Russia, the new Federal Law “On Transportation Safety” came into force in February 2007. The Russian system for safety shipping is built according to international rules and national regulations and consists of: safe shipping lanes, navigation means and information systems. The Ministry of Transport of Russia has developed the concept for building the Regional System of Safe Shipping that inclu...

Last Updated ( Friday, 22 January 2010 13:19 )

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Status Report. The authors

Puffins in the Barents Sea. Photo NP 

More than 100 experts from a total of 9 Russian and 20 Norwegian institutions have participated in the preparation of the report, and the work has been organized in 13 expert groups. The work has been led by Sevmorgeo and PINRO on Russian side and on Norwegian side by the Institute of Marine Research and the Norwegian Polar Institute..

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The Russian - Norwegian cooperation

Waving kelp at the Norwegian coast. Photo IMR

BarentsPortal is a project developed under the Joint Russian - Norwegian Commission on Environmental Cooperation. The joint environmental report is a co-operation project between the Joint Russian - Norwegian Commission on Environmental Cooperation and the Joint Russian-Norwegian Fisheries Commission

Read about Joint Russian - Norwegian Commission on Environmental Cooperation (unfortunately only in Norwegian - please use web based translation)

Read about the Joint Russian-Norwegian Fisheries Commission

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