Records are being smashed along the Northern Sea Route this year once again.
At 4,890 teu, the Flying Fish 1 has become the largest containership to enter Arctic waters, making its way from Europe to China.
The ice-class ship is one of many Chinese ships to have gained a licence to cross this frozen patch of Planet Earth this year.
More remarkably are the number of vessels which are not ice-class that have managed to win transit licenses from Russia. Recent weeks have seen non-ice class aframaxes and boxships enter Arctic waters for the first time, while there has been extensive interest in gas ships being sent last month to Novatek’s Arctic LNG 2 project.
Traffic analysis of the route carried out by Norway’s Center for High North Logistics indicates 2024 is on course to to beat last year’s record cargo volumes carried along the Northern Sea Route.
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