According to a new study led by Pengjun Zhao, a professor of Urban and Transport Planning at Peking University, the Northern Sea Route could be navigable year-round by the year 2100. This is due ...

From 2019 – the year after China’s Arctic White Paper was released – onward, the number of transits of the Northern Sea Route have grown, rising from 27 in 2018 to 37 in 2019, and further ...

Private investments are attracted to finance the program, and the role of the state is in tax incentives, ensuring transport accessibility, road infrastructures, and personnel training MOSCOW ...

Due to the cool summer temperatures in July 2021, sea ice did not see much melt and the minimum sea ice area for the year was the largest in the past seven years at 4.61 million km2.

The Northern Sea Route is the shortest water route between the European part of Russia and the Far East. The route from the Kara Gate to Providence Bay is about 5,600 km long.

Norwegian cruise line Hurtigruten has announced a long-awaited cruise to Russia’s White Sea in October 2022. The 17-day voyage departs Bergen and spends a week in Russian waters before returning ...

Russia is to spend almost 1.8 trillion roubles ($30 billion) on the Northern Sea Route development project up to 2035, according to a document uploaded to the government's website.