Russia urges the world to view the Arctic as an alternative choice to the Suez Canal.

Guest essay by Eric Worrall

Russia wants the nations to accept her offer to smash canals through the Arctic with their nuclear icebreaker fleet in order to reduce the worldwide dependence of shipping on the Suez Canal.

Russia proposes that the world adopt the Arctic trade route as an alternative to the Suez Canal

GABRIELLE REYES March 26, 2021

Russia’s Rosatom State Nuclear Energy Corporation suggested freight shippers consider the North Sea route as an “alternative” to Egypt’s Suez Canal on Thursday after a container ship blocked the canal this week, stopping billions of dollars’ worth of trade.

The Japanese-owned container ship MV Ever Given flying the Panama flag was docked in the Suez Canal on March 23rd during a sand storm. The ship got stuck in the canal on March 26, although a Dutch salvage company tried to remove the ship. The Suez Canal connects the Mediterranean with the Red Sea. More than ten percent of the world’s sea trade takes place via the narrow waterway.

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“If you get ice-bound, we have icebreakers to break the ice,” wrote Rosatom, who runs Russia’s nuclear-powered icebreaker program, as a second reason.

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Read more: https://www.breitbart.com/asia/2021/03/26/russia-suggests-world-adopt-arctic-trade-route-as-alternative-to-suez-canal/

Tweet from the Russian nuclear agency Rosatom;

Topic: Reasons to consider the North Sea route as an alternative to the Suez Canal route

1. Much more space to draw strange pictures with your giant ships https://t.co/SqcMmlC0K8

– Rosatom Global (@RosatomGlobal) March 25, 2021

I suspect that few senders will accept Russia’s offer, at least in the near future. Even with the help of Russian icebreakers, ships would still have to be ice-hardened to make the passage safe.

No answer from Greenpeace on how they want to smash the Arctic ice at a profit.

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