Proposing a common platform of shipping cost analysis of the Northern Sea Route and the Suez Canal Route

• Main Authors: Masahiko Furuichi, Natsuhiko Otsuka
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Subjects: Arctic; Breaker; Lasserre; Global warming; Northern Sea Route; Sea ice
• Online Access: http://www.palgrave-journals.com/mel/journal/v17/n1/pdf/mel201429a.pdf; http://www.palgrave-journals.com/mel/journal/v17/n1/full/mel201429a.html

Maritime trade between East Asia and Northwest Europe using the Northern Sea Route (NSR) has been recently increasing, because ship operators may take advantage of the shorter sailing distance of NSR whose navigable season has become longer because of retreating Arctic sea ice. As Arctic sea ice con...