What is the Northern Sea Route? 🌏

What is the Northern Sea Route? 🌏

As ice recedes a new shipping route is opening up in the Arctic 🧊

This new route could represent attractive time and fuel cost savings for shipping companies 💰

#NorthernSeaRoute #NSR #Arctic #ArcticGeopolitics #Future #SuezCanal #Geopolitics

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For centuries ships have mainly travelled from East Asia to Europe through one of two routes. The first being through the Indian Ocean and around the Cape of Good Hope, and the second and more recent, through the Indian Ocean, Red Sea and Suez Canal.

However, as average global temperatures continue to rise and Artic Sea ice recedes further, a third route is now opening up, this being the Northern Sea Route through the Bering Strait, the seas of the Arctic Ocean.

For the sake of comparison, were a ship to travel from Japan to the Netherlands via the Northern Sea Route the distance would be less than 9000 kilometres, whereas the route through the Red Sea and Suez Canal would be a distance of roughly 20,000 kilometers. Therefore, the shortcut through the NSR represents an attractive saving in time and fuel costs for many shipping companies.

The viability of the Northern Sea Route has been called into question by some experts, however, who cite issues such as a lack of infrastructure along Arctic Coastlines and weather conditions as major issues.

[MelancholischerMond]

This is madness. The Nort Sea ist a beast.

[redguardmage]

this is a great example of how fucked up our maps are

[dohminkonoha]

Soon, I will travel from Tokyo to Amsterdam by ship.

[laitmagnani]

Northern sea and Bearing strait. Two of the most difficult and unpredictable. Distance might be less but the risk is more than double.

[dutch]

I didn’t believe it, but by my half assed Google earth measurements it’s 8600 miles from Tokyo to Amsterdam along the northern coast, and over 14000 through suez.

[JJsayless]

North Sea is one hell of a journey I’d rather the 20, 000km if I’m honest

[brandomikeman]

For like a second forgot how being a ball worked but ya that's a crazy amount of distance saved

[madihaahmad]

Strange, it seems shorter through the Suez 🧐

[Azsunes]

Even going to the east coast of US going north over Canada is a similar distance than taking Panama, without having to follow the restrictions, wait times and paying for panama canal.

[themindset]

Everyone is scared of the North Sea because of youtube shorts. You can find huge waves and currents pretty much in every sea and ocean

[Agent_Yurich]

And guess who’s owning this route and will make billions out of it just making taxes …

[Jostomter]

It'll be a very hard trip having to refuel in russian north wich has barely to no people with very big waves because of the storms and windchill of siberia.

[ZyamUCCOSZRTGoodUser]

im a new subscriber here, is there a tutorial on how you make this?

[Abbyrobloxgaming]

THE NORTH SEA IS KINDA NEAR IN THE PHILIPPINES?! imma die

[catdairy]

How on earth Northern sea is short cut?? Even in this map It's look twice longer than these two route. Also northern sea route weather is horrible.

[isabellahughes]

I live in Ireland since Ireland is in Europe if I wanted to go to Asia or something I'd have to go through the North Sea also I love anime even though I'm 8 well 9 on the 12th of February but how would I get to Japan because I got to kimonos anyway also I mean by boat

[Dukethedaywalker]

Its because africa is much larger than russia in reality but the sizes on the map of European countries are over exaggerated

[VioletsvisionsCat]

Um….. how about the fact that a new shipping lane has opened up due to receding ice, be the reason why we DONT ship thru there?
Let’s not add more pollution to the exact spots that we don’t want it to be or make worse.

[devanharripersad]

My this calculations your map is drawn wrong

[mriv]

That in no way looks like it’s more than double. Is the map not to scale or are my eyes f*cked?