The Clean Arctic Alliance has publicly reacted to media reports that two container voyages between Asia and Europe used the Northern Sea Route, according to a report published on 15 September 2026 by reports.
Sources said the reaction followed two separate reports: one concerning the Liberian-flagged container vessel Dubai Tower and another reporting the arrival of South Korea's PanStar Acro in north‑western Europe.
Ship movements reported
The Dubai Tower was reported to have departed the UK ports of Teesport and Felixstowe and to have transited the Northern Sea Route after sailing from Ningbo in China, with the vessel described as due in the German port of Hamburg on 15 September 2026. The vessel is identified in the report as Liberian flagged and as a container ship.
The same report identified South Korea's PanStar Acro as having completed a voyage that brought the vessel into the Dutch port of Rotterdam. reports presented these vessel movements as the two items prompting the Alliance's response.
Alliance reaction
Sources indicated that the Clean Arctic Alliance reacted to those accounts. The report presents the Alliance's reaction as a direct response to the published information about the Dubai Tower's transit via the Northern Sea Route and the PanStar Acro's arrival in Rotterdam.
The published item dated 15 September 2026 frames the developments in terms of newsworthy vessel movements between Asian and European ports and notes the Alliance's engagement with the issue. reports is cited in the report as the source linking the vessel transits and the Alliance's subsequent comment.
Taken together, the report records two distinct movements involving container ships on or into north‑western European ports and notes that the Clean Arctic Alliance has responded to those reports. The reports item provides the sequence of ports and the dates attached to the Dubai Tower's westbound voyage, and records the arrival of the PanStar Acro in Rotterdam.
The story as recorded on 15 September 2026 by reports presents the facts of the two voyages and the Alliance's reaction without additional operational or technical detail about the transits themselves. The report is the basis for the Alliance's recorded response as it appears in the published account.
reports's report of 15 September 2026 remains the published source for these movements and for the Clean Arctic Alliance's reaction as described in that item. The Maritime Gazette will continue to note developments reported by that outlet concerning vessel transits via the Northern Sea Route.