Sudden ice, high costs: are China’s Arctic shipping ambitions at risk after traffic surge?

Chinese and South Korean shipping through the Arctic Ocean to Europe has increased this year, although unpredictable ice, high costs and lapses in demand have exposed the challenges of navigating the route, an environmental research group has found. During the late summer and early autumn shipping…
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