Short and Sharp; Shipping  

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Jenis: Article from Bulletin/Magazine
Dalam koleksi: The Economist (http://search.proquest.com/) vol. 403 no. 8789 (Jun. 2012), page 14-15.
Topik: Route Choice; Maritime Industry; International Trade; Trends; International; Climate Change

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The voyage of the tanker Vladimir Tikhonov last August was arguably a bigger event for the Arctic than the polar descent of the Mir submersible four years earlier. It made the 162,000-tonne vessel by far the biggest to have traversed the Arctic, from the Russian Barents Sea port of Murmansk to the Bering Strait, and, as it turned out, also the fastest. There has been a big increase in Arctic shipping in recent years. A 2009 assessment by the Arctic Council counted 6,000 vessels in the Arctic, mostly fishing trawlers and mining barges in the lower reaches. But the traffic that has got everyone excited is using the Arctic to shorten the journey between continents. Almost all of it is taking the Northern Sea Rout (NSR). The 34 vessels that traversed it last year shipped 820,000 tonnes of cargo; official Russian forecasts suggest that this year's figure will be 1.5m tonnes. By 2020, according to American estimates, that will rise to 64m tonnes. Last September, shortly before the end of the NSR's four-to-five-month season, Mr Putin predicted that the NSR would one day rival the Suez Canal.

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