The Russian company Rosatomflot, which controls the Northern Sea Route, has constructed the world’s only nuclear-powered icebreaker fleet to facilitate the initiative.
- Jun 13, 2023, 3:00 PM CDT
During a Kremlin video conference on May 17, Russian President Vladimir Putin stressed to participants that the Northern Sea Route had become “extremely important” to Russia as climate change created more opportunities for shipping along the Arctic route, the shortest maritime link between Asia and Europe. Putin said, “We must think about the future. The NSR is opening up. Whether this is good or bad, it is happening” .
To stimulate transportation along the NSR within Russia proper, in 2022, Rosatomflot launched a regular coastal line between Murmansk and Kamchatka . Currently, the NSR’s main cargo primarily consists of petroleum products, but the route’s operators hope to broaden future cargo options to include agricultural products and fish.
Over the past decade, China has made efforts to determine the NSR’s potential. Since 2013, COSCO Shipping, China’s largest shipping company, has made more than 20 transit voyages along the route, escorted by Russian Rosatomflot nuclear icebreakers .
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