Nordic Bulk Carriers is a Danish shipping firm that operates large bulk carriers in northern waters.[1] The firm was founded in 2009 by Christian Bonfils and Mads Boye Petersen.[2] Bonfils resigned in January 2015, and the firm was acquired by Pangaea Logistics Solutions.[3]
Firsts
editAccording to The Globe and Mail, in 2010 the firm became the first non-Russian firm to send cargo vessels through Russia's Northern Sea Route.[4]
In 2013 the firm's Nordic Orion was the first to carry coal from Canada's west coast, through the Northwest Passage, to Europe.[3][4]
Their Panamax vessel, the Nordic Odin was the first vessel to carry iron ore from the large Baffinland Iron Mine through sea ice in August 2015.[5][6]
References
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"Nordic Bulk Carriers". Bloomberg News. Retrieved 2015-12-10.
It specializes in offering ice class bulk carrier services; and provides shipping services for various commodities, including cement clinkers, steel scrap, fertilizers, iron ore, and grains in Denmark and internationally.
- ^ Tomas Kristiansen (2015-01-20). "Christian Bonfils resigns from Nordic Bulk Carriers". Shipping Watch. Retrieved 2015-12-10.
- ^ a b "NORDIC BULK CARRIERS A/S". Pangaea Logistics Solution. Retrieved 2015-12-10.
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Wendy Stueck (2013-09-25). "Ship crosses Northwest Passage, sails into history". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved 2015-12-10.
The ship – a 225-metre, ice-strengthened carrier loaded with B.C. coal bound for Finland – became the first bulk carrier to make the voyage, which has lured explorers for more than a century and has long been eyed as a commercial route.
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Holly Birkett (2015-08-31). "First panamax carries iron ore from Canada's Arctic to Europe". Splash247. Retrieved 2015-12-10.
Nordic Bulk Carriers' vessel Nordic Odin (77,000 dwt, built 2015) has become the first panamax bulker to carry iron ore from Baffin Island, Canada to Europe through Arctic sea ice.
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Holly Birkett (2015-08-31). "First panamax carries iron ore from Canada's Arctic to Europe". Splash247. Retrieved 2015-12-10.
On August 8, Fednav's supramax bulker Federal Tiber (55,300 dwt, built 2013) left Milne port with the first shipment of Mary River iron ore, bound for Nordenham, Germany.
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