9.11.2009

The Arctic Shortcut

Arctic Shortcut Beckons Shippers as Ice Thaws

Excerpt:

For hundreds of years, mariners have dreamed of an Arctic shortcut that would allow them to speed trade between Asia and the West. Two German ships are poised to complete that transit for the first time, aided by the retreat of Arctic ice that scientists have linked to global warming.


Comment: also consider the Northwest Passage

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