The Global Ice Center at Weathernews Inc. (Tokyo, Japan CEO: Chihito Kusabiraki) has renewed their Global Ice Center website (http://weathernews.com/GIC/) to meet the shipping industry’s growing demand for information about the polar routes.
The renewal adds a new Data page. This page shows sea ice charts, weather charts, wave charts and ocean current charts in the Arctic Sea. By using those charts, anyone can clearly check sea ice or weather in the sea, and a two-week forecast.

Table.Data summary

Type of chart	Sea ice chart Weather chart Wind wave chart Ocean current chart
Temporary coverage	Past (Archive) Now (Analysis) Future (2 weeks forecast / Seasonal outlook)
Regional coverage	Arctic Sea Northeast passage Northwest passage Okhotsk Sea* Baltic Sea* Bohai Sea* Gulf of St.Lawrence* (* only in winter)

The Global Ice Center will further improve their data quality and quantity for safe and optimized navigation in those ice-covered seas.