Russia’s arctic shipping dream stumbles on small aging fleet

Russia aims to quadruple the number of Arctic Sea shipments before 2030 but will have problems doing so, as the country is unable to improve its rather small and aging ice fleet at the required pace.
Photo: Alexander Zemlianichenko/AP/Ritzau Scanpix
Photo: Alexander Zemlianichenko/AP/Ritzau Scanpix
By Bloomberg News

Russia will struggle to meet its strategic goal of more than quadrupling Arctic sea shipments by the end of the decade as the nation cannot increase and upgrade its small, aging ice fleet fast enough, according to the Northern Sea Route operator Rosatom.

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