The Northern Sea Route, which runs from Alaska to the Baltic Sea, counted 71 vessels and 935 sailings across the waterway from January to June this year, according to the NSR information office. That was up by double digits from the same period a year ago and a big increase from the 47 vessels and 572 voyages in the same period of 2018.
“There are many more ships because the ice is thin and you can sail without the help of icebreakers,” said Arne Hall, editor in chief of the Norway-based High North News, which monitors the NSR. “The NSR needs a lot of investment to attract bigger cargo vessels, but activity is picking up, and if the ice keeps melting it will be another option to move cargo from northern China to Europe.”
“There was no ice at all across the coastline in September, no need for icebreakers or ice-hardened vessels,” said Nikos Papalios, a mechanic on a crude tanker that sails the NSR. Russian President Vladimir Putin has said the NSR will be key to develop the Arctic and become a global transport route.
Guess NASA is correct and the Fox News trailer park soothsayer is wrong
If the ships can’t normally sail that coast in the Summer, why are there ports?
Your paper is a dirt rag.
WSJ has $$$$ invested in solar panels & turbines Gid forbids tgey lose money but it’s ok for ordinaru Americans to lose money & jobs to fill Wall Street pockets & some demicrat. Elected officials Gov Cuomo comes to mind
The cllzt has been changing for billion of years’ in 1880s there droughts in usa’ wgat industries caused it?
Хорошая новость! Спасибо, что написали
The sky is falling
We all die. Allow nature to do its work. We are too assuming evil .
Wrong. At least mention “recorded history”. Ever means ever.
So what? Isn’t this rather good news?
Ever?
I guess it’s a pro for climate change
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