Russia sends thin-bottomed tankers along Arctic route for the first time
To shorten the route to China, Russia is using the northern sea route past the North Pole – and now with ships that are not designed to sail in ice-filled waters.
Russia has for the first time allowed tankers that are not reinforced at the bottom against collisions with icebergs to sail a northern sea route through Arctic waters to China, reports the Financial Times.
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