AUTONOMOUS BOXSHIPS AND NUCLEAR TANKERS FOR NSR?

摘要

After three of the world's top five container shipping companies vowed not to operate in the Arctic because of environmental concerns, the Russian Ministry for the Development of the Far East has suggested that a state-run container shipping company be set up to offer a service between Murmansk in the west and Kamchatka in the east. The line envisioned would use feeder vessels to transport containers from major European and Asian ports to hubs in the Barents Sea and Bering Strait, where they would be reloaded onto ice-class vessels for the 3,500-nautical-mile Northern Sea Route (NSR) passage.