Summary of Working Paper No. 108-1998
Work Package 1
The main aim of WP1 Project is to select routes for usage while simulating
commercial navigation along the NSR. The report consists of three main parts.
The first part, prepared by AARI describes how the routes were chosen. It was
made on the basis of long-term experience of Arctic navigation. Variants of
navigation, with modern hydrographic support and determined geographical position,
which are standard or traditional were made basic. In general the NSR standard
variants of navigation are determined and rather well investigated for summer
period (June - October). In this connection, the analysis of routes of
experimental transit passages, carried out in an early spring period, and also in a
summer period, but on not traditional lines, was considered as useful for the
decision.
The second part, prepared by CNIIMF describes operational infrastructure along
the routes. It includes description of rules, radiocommunications, pilotage,
ice convoying tactics, aids to navigation along the routes. We used most updated
available information for this report.
The third part, also prepared by CNIIMF describes the routes, routine
procedures of routes creation and plotting, navigational-hydrographic description of
sailing conditions along the routes, contains general maps and route tables.
Route tables are the main WP1 deliverables. The tables include:
The authors would like to acknowledge very much Capt. Lawson Brigham for his
detailed review and comments. It helped us to improve the report, and we
attempted to fulfil all recommendations. To our great pity Dr. Baskin left us after
heavy disease during the work. So we left unchanged photos in section of
icebreaking pilotage, in spite of Capt. Brigham recommendations, because the photos
were from Dr. Baskin
co-ordinates of routes points ;
courses and distances between points;
depths at the points;
description of dangers;
Admiralty numbers and scales of charts.