Breaking the Ice: The Northern Sea Route

... increasing volumes it could become an additional road in the global maritime highway and assist strategically important sectors like energy. As the IMEMO speaker Andrey Zagorsky pointed out, the ships and icebreakers sailing via the NSR are being subsidies by ... ... unlikely to ever become a real cash-cow like the Suez or Panama Canals. At the conference, Mikhail Suslin and Vladimir Mednikov of Sovcomflot somewhat disagreed with their colleague Zagorsky, as they outlined that all voyages are now economically set to an ...