The presentation “Noncommercial Partnership
of the Coordination of Northern Sea
Route Usages” by captain Mikhailichenko gave the outline of Partnership
foundation history, described its main goals and objectives, the most important
of
them being development of the draft of the Federal Law of the Russian Federation “
About Northern Sea Route”. The presentation also dwelled upon the
structure of
Partnership and briefly characterized some of the member organizations.
The
presentation as well gave the information on how legal bodies can become
Partnership members. Another aspect of the presentation was statistical
information
in the form of tables about Northern Sea Route, namely:
- Annual Traffic on the NSR 1933-2003 (thousand tons)
- Main Characteristics of Arctic Shipping during the Period of 1985-2003
(total amount of cargo, number of ships, number of voyages)
- Cargo Turnover of Arctic Ports (thousand tons) – name of ports,
the year in
maximum as compared with 2003
- Annual Transit Traffic along NSR 1991-1997 and main types of cargo
- Preliminary Assessment of Marine arctic Cargo Shipment for the Period
up
to 2015 as Estimated by Russian Research Institutes
- Annual traffic of foreign flag vessels on the NSR
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