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...
Published in: | Polar Science |
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Main Authors: | , , , , |
Format: | Other/Unknown Material |
Language: | English |
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Elsevier
2016
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Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11794/1788 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polar.2016.04.004 |
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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