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| Nigeria: Govt Imports N109 Billion Fish From Norway Annually |
| [Norwaynews] [03.02.2012, 01:38pm, Fri. GMT] |
| Nigeria imports fish worth about N109.2 billion ($700 million) annually from Norway, the Norwegian Ambassador to Nigeria, Kjell Lillerud has said. He said this yesterday in Abuja when he visited the Minister of state for Trade and Investment, Dr Samuel Ortom.Lillerud said that though he does not have the tonnage of fish that gets to Nigeria, there are three categories with stock fish taking the lead. |
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Russia and Norway
| Norway and Russia plan path towards Arctic energy exploration |
| [Norwaynews] [04.02.2012, 05:55pm, Sat. GMT] |
| Norway announced an initiative this week to invest about 1 million USD towards a Norwegian-Russian project that will assess the technology needed to develop the untapped oil fields in the Arctic region, particularly in the Barents Sea. The project has a total funding estimate of about 2.7 million USD over three years and will include partners such as INTSOK, Gazprom, Tschudi Shipping, and others. |
| | | | Fight over fighter jet location |
| [Norwaynews] [17.01.2012, 01:12pm, Tue. GMT] |
| Norway will invest €7 billion on 56 new F35 fighter jets. With new planes, the head of the armed forces recommends to move the mainbase from Bodø above the Arctic Circle to a more southern location. That triggers intense political debate about Norway's High North security policy. In the future Norway might have no fighter jets stationed in the northern part of the country, if the recommendations from chief of Norwegian defence, General Harald Sunde, are heard. |
| | | | Russia is Norway’s most important fish market |
| [Norwaynews] [05.01.2012, 07:48pm, Thu. GMT] |
Russia has climbed to the top of the Norwegian fish export list and passed France in 2011. The total export of Norwegian fish to Russia was € 650 million last year. Russia has for many years been among the most important markets for Norwegian fish export. Now it is the most important market. The total export of Norwegian fish to Europa was € 3,8 Billion, and France and Russia is by far the two most important markets with more than € 1,3 billion of the total European sales.
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| | | | Russian nuclear submarine catches fire during "repairs" near to Norway |
| [Norwaynews] [30.12.2011, 11:38am, Fri. GMT] |
| One of Russia's biggest nuclear submarines caught fire while undergoing repairs in dock in the northern Murmansk region but experienced no radiation leak, officials said. Russia said firefighters contained a blaze on a nuclear submarine undergoing repairs near Norway after partially submerging the vessel, insisting there was no radiation threat. |
| | | | 34 vessels in transit on Northern Sea Route |
| [Norwaynews] [03.12.2011, 05:27pm, Sat. GMT] |
| This year’s season on the Northern Sea Route was special in many ways. Not only was the route accessible about one month longer than usual, but is also had the highest number ever of vessels in transit from Murmansk to another country. According to operator of the nuclear icebreaker fleet Rosatomflot, 34 vessels have sailed the whole Northern Sea Route this year. |
| | | | Bus with Russian trawler crew overturn in Norway, 1 person killed |
| [Norwaynews] [19.11.2011, 09:01am, Sat. GMT] |
A bus carrying 21 people, Russian trawler Boris Zaitsev's relief crew, overturned on Saturday near Norwegian Hammerfest, killing one person. "The incident happened at about 3.30 am Moscow time," Murmansk's emergency center official told RIA Novosti. "An executive officer called the Russian Emergency Ministry and said that a bus carrying a relief crew of 21 people, including 2 drivers, overturned.
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| | | | Strengthened Norwegian-Russian Cooperation |
| [Norwaynews] [01.11.2011, 12:23pm, Tue. GMT] |
| State Secretary Rikke Lind has led the Norwegian delegation to a meeting in the Norwegian-Russian working group on regional and border cooperation in Bodø. The working group focuses primarily on cooperation between the three northernmost counties in Norway and the regions in northwestern Russia. |
| | | | Russia changes border opening hours |
| [Norwaynews] [27.10.2011, 04:18pm, Thu. GMT] |
| Russia adjusts opening hours at its northern check-points when Norway and Finland returns to wintertime on Sunday. Moscow has decided to drop transition to wintertime and as a result the Norwegian, Russian land border will have a three hours time difference from October 30. |
| | | | Russia’s Fishery Agency threatens to strike Norwegian fish export |
| [Norwaynews] [18.10.2011, 07:19pm, Tue. GMT] |
| Russia is not going to stand idly and watch the Norwegian coast guard arresting our trawlers in the waters around Svalbard, says Andrey Krainy, head of the Federal Fishery Agency. The unusually strong statement comes in an interview with Kosomolskaya Pravda after last week’s meeting in the joint Norwegian-Russian fishery commission where the arrest of the trawler “Sapphire II” became a hot topic. |
| | | | Historical Norwegian-Russian meeting |
| [Norwaynews] [13.10.2011, 03:39pm, Thu. GMT] |
| We intend to strengthen our cooperation in the High North with joint initiatives both on land and in the air, Norwegian Chief of Defence said after his historical visit to Moscow yesterday. It is the first time ever that a Norwegian Chief of Defence visits Russia. On the invitation of his Russian counterpart, General Harald Sunde this week paid a visit to Moscow. |
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| Norway-Russia Arctic technology bid |
| [Norwaynews] [27.01.2012, 10:48am, Fri. GMT] |
| Norway has launched a Nkr16 million ($2.7 million) bilateral project with Russia to develop new technology for exploitation of oil and gas resources in the environmentally sensitive Arctic region, including the Barents Sea. The initiative, named Russian-Norwegian oil and gas industry co-operation in the High North, is backed by industry players including Russian gas monopoly Gazprom, US supermajor ConocoPhillips and Anglo-Dutch giant Shell, as well as diverse private and public sector bodies from both countries. |
| | | | Russia permits Norway LNG through Northern Sea Route |
| [Norwaynews] [05.01.2012, 07:52pm, Thu. GMT] |
According to Norway's Barents Observer, the Russian government has granted permission for the first tanker shipment of liquefied natural gas from Norway to Asia through the newly viable Northern Sea Route along Russia's northern coast, and then the Bering Straight. The vessel making the trips, the 6,898-deadweight-ton tanker, Ribera del Duero Knutsen, is reportedly the only ICE-1A WINTERIZED-class LNG tanker in the world.
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| | | | Norway unhappy about Russia's delayed notification of submarine fire |
| [Norwaynews] [31.12.2011, 01:07am, Sat. GMT] |
| Norwegian officials said on Friday that they were unhappy about Russia's delayed notification of and inadequate information about the fire which broke out Thursday involving a Russian nuclear submarine at the Murmansk shipyard. "It is worrying that the Norwegian authorities were not notified in accordance with the notification arrangements that apply to events that may cause emissions," said Nils Bohmer, chairman of Norway's Environment Board. |
| | | | Norway and Russia create highways in the sky |
| [Norwaynews] [17.12.2011, 11:28am, Sat. GMT] |
| New air routes between Norway and Russia will enable increased traffic in Norwegian air space, less CO2 emissions for each flight and lower costs for the airlines. An on-going collaboration between Norwegian ANSP Avinor and the supplier of Russian air traffic services, Federal Air Navigation Service (Rosaeronavigatsia) forms the basis for important route developments between Norwegian and Russian air space. |
| | | | NATO countries’ missile defence system in Europe - Russia |
| [Norwaynews] [24.11.2011, 05:20pm, Thu. GMT] |
| Russia’s relations with the USA and NATO in the missile defence area have a long and complicated history. I remember that when US President Barack Obama revised his predecessor’s plans to build a missile defence system in Europe in September 2009, we welcomed this as a positive step. |
| | | | Norway pressing on tax breaks for Shtokman |
| [Norwaynews] [07.11.2011, 05:13pm, Mon. GMT] |
| In anticipation of tax breaks for the project, Shtokman shareholders are expected to take the final decision till the end of 2011. Significant fiscal relief for Shtokman in the form of discounted rates of mineral extraction tax and gas export duty is required from the Russian policy-makers. |
| | | | Bulava missile visible from Norway |
| [Norwaynews] [28.10.2011, 09:39am, Fri. GMT] |
| Russia’s first fourth-generation strategic submarine Yury Dolgoruky this morning launched it third Bulava missile. The launch was as success and was visible from large parts of Northern Norway. |
| | | | Norwegian visa-bureaucracy hampers cross-border development |
| [Norway] [18.10.2011, 07:53pm, Tue. GMT] |
| People in the Russian border-town can see Norway from their kitchen windows, but find it much easier to apply for visa to Finland when traveling abroad. Obtaining a Pomor-visa to Norway requires personal attendance at the consulate general in Murmansk, a distance far longer than the border itself. |
| | | | Russians must follow Norwegian law |
| [Norway] [14.10.2011, 03:48pm, Fri. GMT] |
| Public prosecutor says Norway has no intention to change the routines in the fishery protection zone around Svalbard. Russian Fish Producers’ Union however claims that the fishing ground has status as an open sea where vessels are subject only to the laws of the country which owns them. |
| | | | First X-bow ships travels Northern Sea Route |
| [Norwaynews] [13.10.2011, 03:35pm, Thu. GMT] |
| The 3D seismic vessel Polarcus Alima recently transited from Norway to New Zealand through the Northern Sea Route. The vessel began the passage from Hammerfest on September 15 after completion of seismic operations in the Barents Sea. The ship followed the 3,000 nautical mile NSR along the northern coast of Russia to Cape Dezhnev in the Bering Straits. |
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