Northwest Passage
Melting Arctic sea ice during summer may soon become so pervasive if carbon emissions are not drastically curbed that new shipping lanes not controlled by Russia will open up. Current Russian law requires that all vessels passing through the Northern Sea Route off Siberia in summer pay tolls, be piloted by Russians and provide advance notice of their plans to use the route.
But a new study by Brown University finds that there will soon be shorter, more eco-friendly maritime routes that bypass Russian control. Arctic shipping routes between Asia and Europe are 30% to 50% shorter than using the Suez and Panama canals, and are an estimated 14 to 20 days faster.
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