The study explores the challenges of navigating polar regions while adhering to the International Maritime Organization's Polar Code. The Polar Code categorizes ships based on their polar handling capabilities, but unpredictable ice conditions and limitations in monitoring technologies make strict compliance difficult. Satellite imagery is often the sole source of information to produce ice charts. These charts are invaluable tools for navigation, but satellite data prior to ice center analysis can sometimes provide more up-to-date information, requiring ice pilots to interpret it in combination with direct real-world observation.