A infografia compara a Rota do Mar do Norte pelo oceano Ártico com a rota normalmente seguida pelo sul, via canal de Suez.
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Maersk vai enviar primeiro porta-contentores pela rota do Ártico

August 23, 2018 - Um navio dinamarquês zarpou de Vladivostoque para tentar ser o primeiro porta-contentores a percorrer a rota do Ártico pelo norte da Rússia.

Denmark’s Maersk, the world’s largest operator of container shipping, plans to send the first such ship from East Asia to Europe via the Arctic Ocean. The ship will collect data to see if melting Arctic sea ice has made the route economically viable.

The recently launched Venta Maersk set sail from the Russian port of Vladivostok on August 23, from where it will sail north through the Bering Strait and then west along Russia’s northern coast, heading for St Petersburg via what is known as the Northern Sea Route.

The company said the Venta Maersk, which carries approximately 3,600 containers, is designed to withstand waters as cold as -25°C. It will transport a cargo of goods including frozen fish on the trial voyage, after which it will be deployed in the Baltic Sea.

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PUBLISHED: 23/08/2018; STORY: Graphic News; PICTURES: Google, MarineTraffic
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