Breaking the Ice: The Northern Sea Route

... achieved in the peak years. In the historic peak of 1987 a total of 6.5 million tons of cargo was transported via the NSR by the USSR, which then fell to a historic low just shy of 1.5 million in the dusk of 1998’s new Russia. In 2012 we have reached ... ... this is still only an equivalent set in the early 1970’s by the Soviet Union, or ~60% of the historic peak. Still, if Sovcomflot Mikhail Suslin’s predictions prove true, whereby at the current levels without any dire events we should see ...