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Freighter Makes First Of Its Kind Transit Of Northwest Passage

2013-09-27 19:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

National Public Radio: A Danish shipping company announced Friday the first-ever voyage of a large commercial freighter through the Northwest Passage a journey made possible by the disappearance of Arctic ice due to global warming. The 75,000-ton Nordic Orion, en route from Vancouver, Canada, to a port in Finland, completed the polar route this week and is scheduled to arrive at its destination, the Finnish port of Pori, on Oct. 7, . The ship is delivering coal to Ruukki Metals, a Finnish steel producer. The news comes...

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Freighter sails through Northwest Passage from Canada to Europe

2013-09-27 14:06:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Reuters: A large sea freighter completed a voyage through the hazardous Arctic Northwest Passage for the first time on Friday as global warming opens routes that mariners have wanted for centuries. The 75,000 deadweight-ton Nordic Orion, built in 2011, left the Canadian Pacific port of Vancouver in early September with a cargo of coking coal and is scheduled to arrive in the Finnish port of Pori on October 7, according to AIS shipping data. "The Northwest Passage is more than 1,000 nautical miles shorter...

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Boeing Delivers First 767 Freighter to FedEx Express

2013-09-05 10:47:27| Air Courier - Topix.net

Boeing and FedEx Express, an operating company of FedEx Corp. , celebrated today the delivery of the Memphis, Tenn.-based express shipping company's first 767-300 Freighter.

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