Russia continues to release increasingly ambitious figures for the development of the Northern Sea Route (NSR). According to the latest forecasts by Rosatom the route will see 270m tons of cargo in 2035. This would be a nearly ten-fold increase over 2022.
In comparison, the Suez Canal, one of the world’s busiest shipping routes, saw 1.27bn tons of cargo throughput in 2022. Just a few years ago, estimates that the Arctic could see 20 percent of the cargo volume of the Suez Canal would have seemed outlandish, but Russian officials insist that these forecasts are very much achievable.
Russias state atomiс energy corporation, Rosatom’s special representative for the development of the Arctic, Vladimir Panov, presented these latest figures to parliamentarians of the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug district. Läs artikel