Tiongkok Artic Dream cum true?

[k1976]

Four hundred kilometres north of the Arctic Circle, in the Norwegian port of Kirkenes, there are still some who dream that this sleepy town will one day become an important shipping hub. They see it as the western end of a new, faster sea route from China to Europe, made possible by the impact of global warming on ice-filled waters off the Siberian coast. With war raging in Ukraine, this ambition now sounds fanciful. China’s support for Russia is fuelling Western distrust of the Asian power’s “polar silk road" plans. But China is not retreating from the Arctic. It still sees a chance to boost its influence there, and to benefit from the area’s wealth of natural resources.

Rising temperatures in the Arctic are slowly opening up new possibilities for transport. But geopolitics are changing the region faster. Kirkenes feels this strongly. It is just 15 minutes’ drive from the Russian border. Tourists can enjoy a “king crab safari" that takes them by boat right up to it, with eponymous crustaceans caught along the way and cooked for the visitors (the massive non-native species was introduced by the Soviets). Russians, though, no longer cross into Kirkenes for shopping and crab feasts.

On May 29th Norway closed the border crossing to day-trippers from the other side. The conflict in Ukraine has cast a chill over the town. There were “tensions in the air" in October when Russia’s envoy in Kirkenes laid a wreath at a monument to the Soviet troops who liberated the town from the Nazis towards the end of the second world war, the Barents Observer, a local online newspaper, reported. Politicians in Kirkenes had urged him not to do so.

 

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In such a climate it is hard to imagine how China’s Arctic silk-road project, unveiled in 2017, might take off. It had sounded a great idea. By using the Arctic’s Northern Sea Route (see map), shipments from Shanghai to Hamburg could take a mere 18 days, compared with about 35 days needed for the route via the Suez Canal—or ten days longer than that if rerouted around the Cape of Good Hope to avoid attacks by the Houthi rebels in Yemen (there have been dozens against ships in the Red Sea since the war in Gaza began last year).

 

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https://vdata.nikkei.com/en/newsgraphics/northern-sea-route/

Since the Age of Discovery, humans have explored the world's sea routes, but there is still one of the "Seven Seas" that has yet to be conquered: The Arctic Ocean.

The Northern Sea Route is gaining prominence because of global warming, and it is the shortest route between East Asia and Europe. It has the potential to rewrite the world's logistics networks.

The Arctic is also rich in natural resources, and the U.S., China and Russia have begun to compete for control of the region. It is also becoming important for Japan's energy policy.

 

[k1976]

The Northern Sea Route (NSR), also known as the Northeast Passage (NEP), is a shipping route connecting the eastern and western parts of the Arctic Ocean. The 13,000-kilometre NSR is shorter than the 21,000-kilometre Suez Canal route, and can reduce sailing time between Europe and Asia from one month to less than a fortnight.
On 6 June 2023, Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin spoke at a strategic session on the NSR. The session evaluated the progress of the "Northern Sea Route development plan" which was approved by the Russian government in August 2022 that "includes [the] construction of more than 50 icebreakers and ice-class vessels, ports and terminals, emergency and rescue centres, [and] building an orbital group of satellites". Russia has pledged 2 trillion rubles (US$21.4 billion) over the next 13 years to the development of the NSR.

Stronger Russia-India ties​

On 27-28 March 2023, Alexei Chekunkov, the Russian minister for the development of the Far East and the Arctic, visited India to meet with Indian business circles and officials to discuss the transportation of goods through the NSR via Russian and Indian ports. The meeting confirmed the development of transport and logistics links via the NSR, the Arctic and Far Eastern Railway, and port infrastructure between India and Russia.

The Northern Sea Route (NSR), also known as the Northeast Passage. (SPH Media)
India was recorded as the largest buyer of Russian crude petroleum oil and the second-largest buyer of Russian oil after China in 2022. Russian exports of crude petroleum oil to India increased significantly from US$1,221 million in 2018 to US$24,988 million in 2022, and overall Russian exports to India increased from US$8,695 million in 2021 to US$46,342 million in 2022. The NSR will provide India and Russia with the ability to increase bilateral trade further through its reliable and secure transportation of goods.

 

[k1976]

No wallorry....still got at least 13yr more
Samster can still afford to go KTV and Merc Showroom de .... Enjoy our Good Old Days

 

[k1976]

https://www.thinkchina.sg/politics/...ute-navigating-shifting-strategic-environment

 

[k1976]

Russia seeking China’s help to develop Arctic shipping route – is it worth it for Beijing?​

• Moscow is keen to develop the Northern Sea Route to counteract sanctions, and is ‘significantly more motivated than China’

Laura Zhou
Published: 12:30pm, 2 Jul 2024Updated: 5:10pm, 2 Jul 2024

Russia is seeking China’s help in developing an Arctic sea route that could almost halve the journey time between Europe and Asia, although the heightened geopolitical risk and Moscow’s suspicion about Beijing’s intentions in the region may limit their scope for cooperation.


Russia hopes the Northern Sea Route (NSR) will become a year-round shipping lane as global warming makes it possible to send ships through waters that were previously only passable in summer.


Some shipping is already using the route, but at the moment it is only passable for around 20 to 30 days a year along a 5,600km stretch between the Kara Sea, off the northwest coast of Siberia, to the Bering Strait, which separates Russia from Alaska.


But as more of the Arctic’s ice melts, the route may eventually be extended to Scandinavia and offer easier access to the North Sea than the Baltic.

 

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Travelling between Shanghai and St Petersburg along this route would take a cargo ship around 20 days, compared with around 36 days via the Red Sea and Suez Canal, according to Russian media.


Cargo carried along the route could reach 270 million tonnes by 2035 - a nearly 10-fold increase on 2022, according to Rosatom, the Russian agency that oversees the sea lane.

Although China relies on the sea to transport more than 60 per cent of its trade by volume so the route could help offset the risk from using existing routes, Wang Yue, a doctoral researcher at Tampere University in Finland, said “Russia is significantly more motivated than China” to develop the route.


Wang, who specialises in security and geopolitics in the Arctic, said the importance the two countries attached to the route “greatly varied”.


“For Russia, the Arctic region is a top strategic and economic priority, and the NSR is crucial for transporting its abundant Arctic resources to the market,” he said.

 

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Faced with economic isolation over its invasion of Ukraine, Russia is now turning to China for help in developing the sea route with President Vladimir Putin saying last year there were “promising” signs in this regard.


In May the two sides agreed to set up a committee to “push forward the development of the Arctic shipping route into an important international transportation corridor” and increase shipping traffic and infrastructure.


Zhao Long, a senior research fellow at the Shanghai Institutes for International Studies, said: “In the face of the deepening crisis in the Red Sea, [China] could also help explore the economic, technical and environmental viability of NSR as a ‘complementary corridor’ for international transportation.”

 

[Truthspeak]

Old maps tell you where artic really located. You have been fooled by the mainstream media lol

 

[Truthspeak]

And we don’t live on a globe. Globe is for gentiles
All Jews elites and flat earthers know what they lived on lol

 

[k1976]

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Old maps tell you where artic really located. You have been fooled by the mainstream media lol

Non non non....for u the earth should be flat

 

[k1976]

And we don’t live on a globe. Globe is for gentiles
All Jews elites and flat earthers know what they lived on lol

Yeah...even our balls are flat, for u Boss TruthSpeak

 

[Truthspeak]

Non non non....for u the earth should be flat

No wonder you were jabbed for your stupidity lol

 

[eatshitndie]

ccp wants to ship more crap and sexport more abalones to europe?

 

[k1976]

ccp wants to ship more crap and sexport more abalones to europe?

Can help to relieve Old AMDK stress by Good Check Colour service at a discounted price

Many many Happy Ending is now possible

 

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The Northern Sea Route (NSR), also known as the Northeast Passage (NEP), is a shipping route connecting the eastern and western parts of the Arctic Ocean. The 13,000-kilometre NSR is shorter than the 21,000-kilometre Suez Canal route, and can reduce sailing time between Europe and Asia from one month to less than a fortnight.
On 6 June 2023, Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin spoke at a strategic session on the NSR. The session evaluated the progress of the "Northern Sea Route development plan" which was approved by the Russian government in August 2022 that "includes [the] construction of more than 50 icebreakers and ice-class vessels, ports and terminals, emergency and rescue centres, [and] building an orbital group of satellites". Russia has pledged 2 trillion rubles (US$21.4 billion) over the next 13 years to the development of the NSR.

Stronger Russia-India ties​

On 27-28 March 2023, Alexei Chekunkov, the Russian minister for the development of the Far East and the Arctic, visited India to meet with Indian business circles and officials to discuss the transportation of goods through the NSR via Russian and Indian ports. The meeting confirmed the development of transport and logistics links via the NSR, the Arctic and Far Eastern Railway, and port infrastructure between India and Russia.

The Northern Sea Route (NSR), also known as the Northeast Passage. (SPH Media)
India was recorded as the largest buyer of Russian crude petroleum oil and the second-largest buyer of Russian oil after China in 2022. Russian exports of crude petroleum oil to India increased significantly from US$1,221 million in 2018 to US$24,988 million in 2022, and overall Russian exports to India increased from US$8,695 million in 2021 to US$46,342 million in 2022. The NSR will provide India and Russia with the ability to increase bilateral trade further through its reliable and secure transportation of goods.

The northern route is just up to russian port and not rotterdam, the EU main port. That may add another few thousand clicks.
Plus the higher risk of icebergs and calamity on northern route.

 

[Truthspeak]

TS will never figure out why artic ice haven’t melt completely yet lol