Interest of Asian shipping companies in navigating the Arctic

Climate change in the Arctic is leading to the fast recession of sea ice in the summer. This evolution leads several observers, scientists, media and government officials, to consider the possibility of developing new shipping routes along Arctic routes, as these routes are much shorter between Euro...

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Published in:Polar Science
Main Authors: Huang, Linyan, Beveridge, Leah, Lasserre, Frédéric, Fournier, Mélanie, Têtu, Pierre-Louis
Format: Other/Unknown Material
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2016
Subjects:
Arctic
Shipping
Asia
Shipping companies
Climate change
Transports maritimes
Compagnies de navigation
Climat > Changements
Arctique*
Sea ice
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11794/1788
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polar.2016.04.004
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Summary:Climate change in the Arctic is leading to the fast recession of sea ice in the summer. This evolution leads several observers, scientists, media and government officials, to consider the possibility of developing new shipping routes along Arctic routes, as these routes are much shorter between Europe and Asia. The literature displays a strong discourse about interest from Asian countries for these potential shipping routes. This paper tackles with this idea and examines to what extent Asian shipping companies, the ultimate economic agents, are really interested in Arctic shipping routes. The image the research portrayed is that only a minority of Asian shipping companies are indeed interested, and those that are interested stress the destinational dimension of Arctic shipping, not transit shipping.

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