Beluga Fraternity Explained

BBC California, before 2011 known as Beluga Fraternity and briefly Fraternity, is a German general cargo ship owned by Beluga Shipping. In 2009 she and her sister ship,, transited the Northern Sea Route while carrying power plant components from Ulsan, South Korea, to the Russian port of Vladivostok.^[1] The voyage was widely covered and sometimes incorrectly said to be the first time when non-Russian ships make the transit.^{[2] [3] [4] [5]} In 1997, a Finnish oil tanker, Uikku, sailed the length of the Northern Sea Route from Murmansk to the Bering Strait, becoming the first Western ship to complete the voyage.

Notes and References

1. News: Commercial Arctic Passage Nearing Goal. 2009-09-04. Andrew Revkin. The New York Times. 2009-09-05.
2. News: Era of Trans-Arctic Shipping Nigh. 2009-07-28. Andrew Revkin. The New York Times. 2012-04-17.
3. News: Derretimiento de los hielos en el Artico abre codiciada ruta marítima . Melting ice in the Arctic seaway opens coveted: Two German freighters that traveled from South Korea to Siberia, managed to cross the mythical Northeast Passage, along the Russian coast . . 2009-09-15 . 2011-12-28 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120617065001/http://www.latercera.com/contenido/678_182097_9.shtml . 2012-06-17 .
4. News: Første skip gjennom Nordøstpassasjen . The first ship through the Northwest Passage . . 2009-09-12 . 2011-12-28 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20140107224810/http://www.nrk.no/nyheter/1.6772070 . 2014-01-07 .
5. News: Gemilerin rotasını değiştiren gelişme . https://web.archive.org/web/20120507102131/http://www.8sutun.com/haberdetay.asp?tarih=17.12.2010&Newsid=50021&Categoryid=11 . dead . 2012-05-07 . Development that changes the course of the vessels . . 2010-12-17 . 2011-12-28 .