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Provides successful long-term forecast of ice navigation
Reveals the dangers of sailing on the Northern Sea Route
Includes tips on how to plan and schedule ship voyages in the Russian Arctic
Presents an innovative probabilistic method of voyage planning and scheduling based on current statistics
Describes how to achieve a successful voyage on ice
Explains why ice conditions can be overcome by an experienced crew without damages and at high average voyage speed
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Planning a Voyage in Ice
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Dangerous Phenomena and Hazards for Navigation
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Ice Navigation Conditions
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Scheduling of Voyage Routes
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About this book
This book explains vessels’ ability to overcome ice on the Northern Sea Route, as well as the criteria of safe speed and maneuvering of vessels on ice. It provides a successful long-term forecast of ice navigation and reveals the dangers of sailing on the Northern Sea Route, It includes tips on how to plan and schedule voyages in the Russian Arctic.
The book develops a set of suggested routes for the period of opening and closing of the transit ice-free zone through the NSR based on the last eleven navigation seasons. It presents a method for determining the date for beginning a voyage of a vessel without ice strengthening through the NSR. It also develops a model of initial (long-term) and operational decision-making support system for vessel voyage planning and scheduling.
The main audience for the book are officers at operational and management level of competency, people planning voyages on the Northern Sea Route in the office of ship operator and in chartering department or consulting company, and participants of Ice Navigator IMO Model Courses at basic and advanced level of competency.
Authors and Affiliations
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Faculty of Navigation, Gdynia Maritime University, Gdynia, Poland
Tadeusz Pastusiak
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Voyages on the Northern Sea Route
Authors: Tadeusz Pastusiak
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-25490-2
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-25489-6Published: 20 September 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-25492-6Published: 20 September 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-25490-2Published: 04 September 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXXVIII, 279
Number of Illustrations: 256 b/w illustrations, 61 illustrations in colour
Topics: Polar Geography, Transportation, Climate Change/Climate Change Impacts