Nordic Bulk Carrier

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

According 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]

References

  1. ↑ "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.
  2. ↑ Tomas Kristiansen (2015-01-20). "Christian Bonfils resigns from Nordic Bulk Carriers". Shipping Watch. Retrieved 2015-12-10.
  3. 1 2 "NORDIC BULK CARRIERS A/S". Pangaea Logistics Solution. Retrieved 2015-12-10.
  4. 1 2 Wendy Stueck (2013-09-25). "Ship crosses Northwest Passage, sails into history". 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.
  5. ↑ 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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