Chennai, Oct. 10 -- India and Russia are in talks on the construction of ice-class vessels that can carry cargo on the Northern Sea Route, said Vladimir Panov, Special Representative for Arctic Development at Russia's integrated atomic power major Rosatom State Corporation.
He said Russia is considering cooperation in the field of crew training for advanced vessels and supports the signing of a bilateral memorandum in this area.
"Cooperation with India on the Northern Sea Route is carried out within the framework of the intergovernmental format - the Russian-Indian Working Group on Cooperation in the Northern Sea Route under the Intergovernmental Russian-Indian Commission on Trade, Economic, Scientific, Technical and Cultural Cooperation....