The Polar Code and Canada’s regulations on Arctic navigation: shipping companies’ perceptions of the new legal environment

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Polar Journal Pub Date : 2021-01-02 DOI:10.1080/2154896X.2021.1889838

P. Pic, Julie Babin, F. Lasserre, Linyan Huang, Kristin Bartenstein

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ABSTRACT In 2017, the Polar Code, negotiated under the auspices of the IMO, came into force. Later that same year, Canada issued new regulations applicable to navigation in the Canadian Arctic. In this paper, we investigate how this new legal environment is perceived by shipping companies. We conducted a survey, asking companies, both active and not active in the Arctic, how they assess the impact of the legal changes on their operations. Using a qualitative methodology, we coded and analysed 99 questionnaires. Our research shows that companies not active in the Arctic are, as could be expected, largely unaware of the Polar Code and often unwilling to respond to our survey, showing a limited interest in the Arctic shipping market. Companies active in the Arctic and well aware of the issues of safety of navigation and environmental protection generally welcomed the Polar Code. Respondents were less familiar with the new Canadian regulations, arguably corroborating findings according to which the Northwest Passage is not currently considered a potential regular shipping route.

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极地规则和加拿大北极航行法规:航运公司对新法律环境的看法

摘要2017年，在国际海事组织主持下谈判达成的《极地规则》正式生效。同年晚些时候，加拿大发布了适用于加拿大北极地区航行的新规定。在本文中，我们调查了航运公司如何看待这种新的法律环境。我们进行了一项调查，询问了在北极活跃和不活跃的公司，他们如何评估法律变化对其运营的影响。采用定性方法，我们对99份问卷进行了编码和分析。我们的研究表明，不出所料，在北极不活跃的公司基本上不知道《极地守则》，而且往往不愿意对我们的调查做出回应，这表明他们对北极航运市场的兴趣有限。活跃在北极地区并深知航行安全和环境保护问题的公司普遍欢迎《极地守则》。受访者对加拿大的新规定不太熟悉，可以说这证实了西北航道目前不被视为潜在的常规航线的调查结果。

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期刊介绍： Antarctica and the Arctic are of crucial importance to global security. Their governance and the patterns of human interactions there are increasingly contentious; mining, tourism, bioprospecting, and fishing are but a few of the many issues of contention, while environmental concerns such as melting ice sheets have a global impact. The Polar Journal is a forum for the scholarly discussion of polar issues from a social science and humanities perspective and brings together the considerable number of specialists and policy makers working on these crucial regions across multiple disciplines. The journal welcomes papers on polar affairs from all fields of the social sciences and the humanities and is especially interested in publishing policy-relevant research. Each issue of the journal either features articles from different disciplines on polar affairs or is a topical theme from a range of scholarly approaches. Topics include: • Polar governance and policy • Polar history, heritage, and culture • Polar economics • Polar politics • Music, art, and literature of the polar regions • Polar tourism • Polar geography and geopolitics • Polar psychology • Polar archaeology Manuscript types accepted: • Regular articles • Research reports • Opinion pieces • Book Reviews • Conference Reports.