About 12,000 tons of cargo is planned to be transported this year via Russia’s Northern Sea Route (NSR), according to Petr Savchuk, Deputy Head of the Russian Federal Fishery Agency.
He was talking to journalists this week at the official ceremony to mark the world’s largest sailing ship, ‘Sedov’, arriving at the Russian Far Eastern port of Vladivostok. The sailboat, which is taking part in the round-the-world voyage, will sail further to Kaliningrad along the Northern Sea Route. According to Savchuk, that’s an important event, because the ‘Sedov’ will pave the way for all other ships and prove that the Northern Sea Route is safe for civilian shipping.
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