Russian Arctic Sea route shipping to top 32 million tons this year – Rosatom

The volume of cargo

The volume of cargo transported via Russia’s Northern Sea Route (NSR) is constantly growing and could top expectations by the end of the year, said Director General of the State Atomic Energy Corporation Rosatom Alexey Likhachev.

“The plan for this year’s freight traffic along the Northern Sea Route was 29 million tons, but today our forecast is that it will exceed 32 million tons,” Likhachev told Rossiya 24 TV channel. Earlier, he said that by 2024 the volume of freight transportation via the NSR could reach 92.6 million tons.

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