Expedition cruise ships help locate sailboat presumed lost in Svalbard

September 21st, 2017

Monday evening, Northern Norway’s Joint Rescue Coordination Centre (JRCC) received signals from an Emergency position indicating radio beacon (EPIRB) transmitting from a position just north of Magdalenafjorden (Magdalena Bay) in Svalbard. The beacon belonged to a sail boat that has Longyearbyen as its home port. The JRCC tried contacting the boat with no response. Other […]

Two poles, one mission: Joint AECO/IAATO conference promotes responsible polar tourism

September 18th, 2017

Press release from AECO – Association of Arctic Expedition Cruise Operators and the International Association of Antarctica Tour Operators (IAATO) (18.09.17): October 1 – 4, more than 90 representatives from the Arctic and Antarctic expedition cruise industry will gather in Iceland for the second AECO/IAATO Polar Field Staff Conference. The topic of the conference is […]

Joint AECO/IAATO conference promotes responsible polar tourism

September 18th, 2017

October 1 – 4, more than 90 representatives from the Arctic and Antarctic expedition cruise industry will gather in Iceland for the second AECO/IAATO Polar Field Staff Conference. The topic of the conference is evolution and new challenges in the polar tourism industry.

AECO meets with the Canadian Hydrographic Service

September 5th, 2017

August 22 – 24, 2017, AECO attended the 7th Conference of the International Hydrographic Organization in Ilulissat, Greenland. We had the pleasure of meeting with the Canadian Hydrographic Service (CHS) to discuss possibilities for cooperation. AECO has a number of initiatives related to navigation, including a project where crowd sourced depth soundings are used to […]