Breaking the Ice: The Northern Sea Route
... 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... ... 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... ... protracted summers. The Nuclear Gambit – Russian Icebreaking Fleet: As the RIAC conference was taking place the Russian icebreaking fleet was about to celebrate its...
08.01.2014