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tation along the routes of the Northern
Sea Route for 2020 and 2030
are significantly higher than those
shown in the figure above. For example,
according to the forecasts of
Rosmorrechflot by 2020, the volume
of shipments will be 44 million tons,
and by 2030 it will increase to 70 million
tons. According to the baseline
scenario, from the Ministry of Industry
and the Ministry of Natural Resources,
the cargo flow through the
Northern Sea Route may reach 72
million tons by 2030, and in the future
can grow up to 100-105 million
tons. The total capacity of terminals
in the seaports of Sabetta, Chaika,
Tanalau, Arinay and a number of others
is projected to be more than 117
million tons per year. Such capacity
will allow to ensure year-round movement
of cargoes on the NSR.
The volume of cargo transportation
along the Northern Sea Route
by the results of 2017 amounted to
10.7 million tons, and in comparison
with 2016 increased by 42.6%. 9.7
million tons of cargo were transported
by sea vessels, 797.2 thousand
tons of river vessels were transported,
194,400 tons were transported
by transit vessels. It is expected that
the bulk of cargo will later be associated
with transportation of energy
resources - liquefied natural gas
(LNG) ), oil, coal, metals. Since the
launch of the Yamal LNG LNG plant
in December 2017, 5 LNG shipments
have been sent from the Sabetta
port by tanker gas carriers.
China's step in Arctics
Stable interest from China on the
use of NSR in gas supplies is noteworthy.
Commenting on the Chinese
initiative of the Polar Silk Road in the
Arctic, Vitaly Monkevich, president
of the Russian-Asian Union of Industrialists
and Entrepreneurs, said
that the activity of Chinese carriers
on the Yamal LNG project in 2018
will grow at times. In 2017, China put
Route from Yokohama to
Rotterdam:
Arctic route – 7300 nautic
miles/20 days at sea
Through Indian ocean and Suez
canal – 12500 nautic miles/33
days at sea
As per average operational cost
a day for Suezmax in average
can be saved 200 000 usd/trip
several transit cargo ships on the
route. The way from the Asia-Pacific
region to Europe along the Northern
Sea Route by Chinese vessels took
from seven to nine days, which is ten
days shorter than the route through
the Suez Canal. Accordingly, we can
expect an increase in the activity of
transit traffic from China to Europe,
since the NSR presumes caravan
tracking of ships - along with the
tankers will go cargo ships. Thus, this
year will see a further increase in the
volume of transit cargo by the NSR.
Russian icebreakers' fleet
The ice fleet of Russia is 140 years
old. Today, 44 ice-breakers are keeping
watch, 5 of them are nuclear and
39 diesel. Russia is the only country
that has a fleet of nuclear icebreakers.
The first five places in the rating
of the ten largest icebreakers of the
world were occupied by Russian icebreakers.
For example, the icebreaker
Yamal ranks second in the rating (laid
in 1986), overcomes the ice thickness
to 3 meters at a speed of 1-2 knots.
In Russia, a unique experience in the
construction of special equipment
for the Arctic latitudes has been accumulated
at the shipyards of the
United Building Corporation (USC).
OSK unites about 40 shipbuilding
and ship repair yards, leading design
bureaus and other enterprises and
sets the development vector for the
entire industry.
In early February this year in St.
Petersburg, Russia the ceremony of
awarding the name of the new vessel
PJSC Sovcomflot - "Yevgeny Primakov"
took place. "Evgeni Primakov" is
a state-of-the-art icebreaking vessel.
It is built at the shipyard "Arctech
Helsinki Shipyard", Finland. "Evgeni
Primakov" is completing a series of
4 ice-class ships built in Helsinki for
the largest Russian shipping company
Sovcomflot in order to service
the oil and gas production platforms
of the Sakhalin-2 project in the Far
East. Thus, if there is a sufficient
number of icebreaker escorts and
parameters, the Northern Sea Route
can become year-round in the wiring
of ships, profitable for both transit
and cabotage.
Providing the Northern Sea Route
is Russia's strategic task, the outcome
of which will depend not only
on the attractiveness of its oil and
gas bearing near-Arctic territories
(there are less risky territories), but
also on its transit status.
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