A Hurtigruten vessel has this week completed the first crossing through the Arctic's Northwest Passage by a hybrid cruiseship.

The Norwegian owner said the 21,800-gt expedition ship Roald Amundsen (built 2019) "wrote a new chapter in exploration history" as the first gasoil and battery powered vessel to make the journey.

As Roald Amundsen arrived in Nome, Alaska, in the evening of 10 September, the company added that master Kai Albrigtsen made a "monumental entry" in the ship’s logbook: The first complete passage of the more than 3,000 nautical miles passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific,...