Friday, September 11, 2009

Beluga Shipping goes through the arctic shortcut

Beluga shipping operates specialized heavy lift vessels.

They have made the news, by going through the Arctic Shortcut.

From the New York Times

MOSCOW — 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.

The ships started their voyage in South Korea in late July and will begin the last leg of the trip this week, leaving a Siberian port for Rotterdam in the Netherlands carrying 3,500 tons of construction materials.


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