Report Available
Arctic Marine Shipping Assessment
University of Alaska Fairbanks
The full report is available at:
http://www.snap.uaf.edu/downloads/arctic-marine-shipping-assessment
For further information, please contact:
Marmian Grimes
Email: marmian.grimes [at] alaska.edu
Mike Sfraga
Email: msfraga [at] alaska.edu
Lawson Brigham
Email: lwb48 [at] aol.com
A report entitled "Considering a Roadmap Forward: The Arctic Marine
Shipping Assessment" has been released by the University of Alaska
Fairbanks (UAF). It offers international policymakers guidance for
navigating the political and practical ramifications of shipping in the
Arctic.
The report is the result of a workshop hosted by UAF in October 2009 as
part of the University of the Arctic's Institute for Applied Circumpolar
Policy. The workshop drew nearly 70 experts from Canada, China, Denmark,
Japan, Norway, the United Kingdom, and the United States to examine the
17 recommendations outlined in the Arctic Council's 2009 Arctic Marine
Shipping Assessment.
The three-day October 2009 workshop focused on three themes: enhancing
arctic marine safety, protecting arctic people and the environment, and
building the arctic marine infrastructure. The 24-page report offers
dozens of proposed actions, many of which will require public or private
funding. Among the highest-priority policy issues are:
- A mandatory International Maritime Organization Polar Code;
- Full tracking and monitoring of arctic commercial ships;
- An arctic search and rescue agreement (underway);
- Surveys of indigenous marine use;
- A circumpolar response capacity agreement among the arctic
states; and
- Implementation of an arctic observing network to support science
and marine operations.
The full report is available at:
http://www.snap.uaf.edu/downloads/arctic-marine-shipping-assessment.
For further information, please contact:
Marmian Grimes
Email: marmian.grimes [at] alaska.edu
Mike Sfraga
Email: msfraga [at] alaska.edu
Lawson Brigham
Email: lwb48 [at] aol.com