After Hormuz, China looks to the promise – and peril – of the Arctic’s ‘ice silk road’

China has established the first scheduled transit through the northern sea route, but questions remain over the environmental and political risks When Marco Rubio suggested that the world should look to new shipping lanes to bypass the logjammed strait of Hormuz, it’s unlikely he had the Arctic’s northern sea route in mind. And yet in recent months the promise of this 5,500km channel – cleaved through frozen seas by nuclear-powered icebreakers and illuminated by a sun that never dips below th...

By Jonathan Yerushalmy and Alicia Chen in Taipei

Chinese Ship Sets Off For Europe Through Arctic, Halving Travel Time - Barron's

Chinese Ship Sets Off For Europe Through Arctic, Halving Travel Time  Barron's

Chinese ship sets off for Europe through Arctic, halving travel time

A Chinese container vessel has set sail for Europe through the Arctic, part of new weekly service on a route that cuts shipment times in half but which environmental groups warn could speed up the melting of polar ice. The “Dubai Tower” left the eastern port city of Ningbo on Saturday evening heading north, where […]

By AFP

China-Europe Arctic shipping route enters regular weekly operation - Global Times

China-Europe Arctic shipping route enters regular weekly operation  Global Times

Ship transits through Arctic, halving travel time - The Star

Ship transits through Arctic, halving travel time  The Star