Association Murmanshelf hosts 5th International Conference Arctic Logistics, Murmansk, April 8
The NPO “Murmanshelf”, an Association of Arctic projects contractors on April 8, 2015 organized and held the 5th International Conference “Arctic Logistics” supported by the Government of Murmansk region, the event organizer said in a media release.
Event Co-sponsors: Ministry of Transport and Road Facilities of Murmansk region, Committee for Development of Industry.
Among opening speakers were: Grigory Stratiy, Vice Governor of Murmansk region; Gøril Johansen, Consul at General Consulate of Kingdom of Norway in Murmansk; and Igor Chernyshenko, Russian Federation Council.
The conference has brought together more than 110 participants from Russia, Finland, Norway, Denmark, Iceland, the Great Britain and the USA: representatives from transport and logistics businesses, logistics and industrial suppliers, scientific and research institutes, educational establishments, legislative and executive authorities.
The Conference session topics and speakers were as follows:
1) Navigation of vessels on Northern Sea Route, Nikolay Monko, Deputy Head, FSI “Northern Sea Route Administration”
2) Role of ice-breaking fleet in the development of Russian Arctic shelf, Vladimir Arutyunyan, Head of Fleet Operations Development Department, FSUE “Atomflot”
3) Practice of “Murmansk Shipping Company” in effective using of ice-breaker “V. Ignatyuk” in Arctic conditions, Gennady Golma, captain-instructor of navigation safety service, “Murmansk Shipping Company”
4) Leasing as a mechanism to attract non-budgetary investments for development of transport, Vladimir Dobrovolsky, Deputy Head, “State Transport Leasing Company”
5) Transport and logistic issues in development of Arctic hydrocarbon fields, Alexey Fadeev, Head of the Production Department of “Gazpromneft-Sakhalin”
6) Innovative vector of development of coastal territories in Russian Arctic, Svetlana Lipina, Doctor of Economics, professor, Director of Centre of innovative economics, “Council for Study of Productive Forces”
7) Yamal LNG as a part of Arctic regional coastal infrastructure, Evgeny Borodin, “Center for the study of Arctic”, Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug
8) Development of Murmansk transport hub: plans and prospects, Dmitry Sosnin, Minister of Transport and Road Facilities of Murmansk region
9) Interconnection between Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug and the Northern Sea Route, Ruslan Iliyasov, “Center for the study of Arctic”, Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug.
The participants have discussed at the round table the following issue: “Tools and Technologies for Prevention of Emergency Situations, Organization of Rescue Operations”. Reports were made by: Mikhail Sarkov, Deputy Director, Northern branch of “Maritime Rescue Service”; Ilya Kulikov, Director, “Murmansk CSM”; Ole-Kristian Bjerkemo, Senior Adviser, Norwegian Coastal Administration; Mikhail Grigoryev, Director, GECON, member of the Scientific Council at the Security Council of the Russian Federation; Vladimir Volkov, “Nansen International Environmental and Remote Sensing Centre”; Olga Sarkova, Director General, “IS-Systems”; Alexander Glazov, Director, “EcoCenter”. Participants discussed peculiarities of Russian legislation in the sphere of OSR, international cooperation in rescue operations at emergency oil spills in the Arctic regions, modern changes of Arctic climate conditions.
The conference program also included a networking platform: the participants took part in 20 business meetings.
Association of contractors “Murmanshelf” would like to extend gratitude to all speakers and participants of the conference and hopes to continue cooperation in the framework of further events.
