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Tourism, mining and forestry could all benefit from a new railway across Lapland, with possible extension to existing tracks via northern Sweden to Norway’s port of Narvik.
During the study, preliminary routing alternatives and their impacts will be drawn and public hearings will take place, as w
Special advisor on research infrastructure, Tobias Krantz says Sweden should invest in a new icebreaker in his proposal to the government today. A new research ship is estimated to cost around SEK 1.5 billion. Sweden's current icebreaker, Oden, is over three decades old.
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Vanishing sea ice gives Norway more waters to patrol. The hull for the first of three new Coast Guard ships to operate in the Arctic zone is now being towed from the shipyard in Romania.
The hulls are built at Vard Tulcea shipyard in Romania, while it will be the Vard Langsten shipyard in Norway
The Russian Arctic region has almost doubled its exports over the past five years.
It is the powerful mineral and metal industry that overwhelmingly dominates the economy of the Murmansk region. About 70 percent of the region’s exports are metals and metals products, and first of all nickel.
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