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Shipping: Venta Maersk Successfully Transits Russia's Northern Ocean Road Becoming The Get-Go Container Send To Produce So

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Venta Maersk Escorted Through Sannikov Strait 
By MarEx 2018-09-12 18:58:18
The Venta Maersk has completed the nearly hard department of her voyage along the Northern Sea Route nether escort past times the Russian icebreaker 50 Let Pobedy. [Fifty Years of Victory]

The vessel maintained a speed of xi knots through the East Siberian Sea too the Laptev Sea too finished that purpose of the voyage on September 11. The icebreaker, operated past times Rosatom, took Venta Maersk along the shortest road through the Sannikov Strait. The 50-kilometer (30-mile) broad strait separates the Anzhu Islands from the Lyakhovsky Islands too connects the Laptev Sea inward the due west alongside the East Siberian Sea inward the east.

Venta Maersk is forthwith continuing to Saint Petersburg without escort. She is expected to become inward on September 27. The vessel left Busan, South Korea, on September 8, too her subsequent voyage from Vladivostok inward Russia's south-east marks to Saint Petersburg inward the north-east a offset for a Maersk container transportation inward the region.

Maersk confirmed to media terminal calendar month that the vessel would brand a lawsuit passage above Russian Federation to get together information too elevate one's heed the operational feasibility of the route. "Currently, nosotros create non come across the Northern Sea Route equally a commercial option to our existing network, which is defined past times our customers' demand, trading patterns too population centers," the theater said inward a statement.

Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Maersk spokesperson noted that the passage is currently usable for alone 3 months per year, though this may modify alongside time. In addition, the voyage requires ice-classed vessels, which are to a greater extent than costly than measure commercial designs....MORE
Russia's InfraNews has a film of the Venta Maersk inward the Kara Sea approaching the Kara Strait due south of Novaya Zemlya, fifty-fifty farther due west than than the transportation was inward the inward a higher house story:

Venta Maersk Escorted Through Sannikov Strait Shipping: Venta Maersk Successfully Transits Russia's Northern Sea Route Becoming The First Container Ship To Do So
На фото Venta в районе Карских ворот.

As tin survive seen, it's a piffling guy, 3600 TEU capacity, 1/6 the size of the trans-Pacific monsters Maersk too CMA-CGM are introducing,
Note also the bow, expert for upwardly to a meter-or-so of ice.

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