Kick-off for project aiming to ensure winter navigation in the Baltic Sea
The kick-off meeting for the winter navigation project WINMOS took place in Helsinki 5-6 November. WINMOS is a project that aims to safeguard efficient winter navigation in the European Union’s northernmost fairways by safeguarding icebreaking resources in a medium and long term perspective and to develop the winter navigation system as a whole in the Baltic Sea.Functional maritime transports all-year-around is of the utmost importance for the trade within the European Union. 15% of the world’s maritime transportation, or more than 750 million tonnes, is performed in the Baltic Sea. Around