Concerning the LRIT, this is a global system sponsored by the IMO whereby all ships weighing 300 tonnes or more—and these are not small ships, they are large ships—must report via Inmarsat, which is a satellite system. In the Arctic, they will report to the North. This year, we will be installing different systems on three of our icebreakers, given the presence of the polar constellation of Iridium satellites. We will try to capture other types of signals to ensure that we receive them all. So I would say that as concerns the vast majority of vessels of a certain tonnage, that is, 300 tonnes or more, we should be able to track their location. In general, every six hours, the vessel sends a message to indicate its position.
On April 27th, 2009. See this statement in context.