The sea route to Italy from Africa is particularly perilous.
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The Northern Sea Route is a shipping route running along the Russian Arctic coast, while the Northwest Passage refers to a sea route that connects the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans via the Canadian Arctic Archipelago.
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Were Russia to seize it, the sea route might also become perilous.
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The "road" refers mostly to a sea route; the "belt" is on land.
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GRAPHIC: Russian LNG exports - Northern Sea Route opens up for Yamal cargoes - reut.
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It also plans a new Black Sea route to Europe via Turkey called TurkStream.
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So the Northern Sea Route (NSR) has emerged as a potential global shipping artery.
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Shipments to China from Yamal should take about 2.13 days using the Northern Sea route.
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DP WORLD WANTS TO OPERATE PORTS ALONG RUSSIA'S NORTHERN SEA ROUTE, TO ESTABLISH INDUSTRIAL PARKS - CEO
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Other LNG tankers have already sailed via the Northern Sea route from Scandinavia to the Pacific.
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For centuries, Western explorers had sought a northern sea route linking the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.
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Police would investigate "the sequence of events, the sea route followed", and other matters, said Singh.
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The first liquid natural gas shipment went to China last summer via the Northern Sea Route.
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Only 376 of the deaths this year occurred on the eastern sea route to Greece from Turkey.
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The sea route to Italy from Africa is the most dangerous border for migrants in the world.
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An open lane on the Northern Sea Route, which is becoming more navigable as the Arctic warms.
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Russia is currently building a fleet of icebreakers to take advantage of the warming northern sea route.
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Those who attempted the sea route illegally would be returned and go to the back of the queue.
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So the Northern Sea Route (NSR) through once-impassable waters has emerged as a potential global shipping artery.
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Putin said projects such as the Northern Sea route would allow Russia to become the world's largest LNG producer.
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So he proposed to dig a canal to Istanbul's west, providing a second sea route across the Eurasian isthmus.
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A deal last year between the European Union and Turkey all but sealed the eastern sea route to Greece.
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Many more migrants are still using the sea route between Libya and Italy to try and reach Europe, however.
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He was on his first failed expedition to find an Arctic sea route between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.
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Last year, the death toll on the sea route between Libya and Italy reached 4,579—the highest on record.
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Yet closing the Greek route has shifted attention to the longer, more dangerous sea route from Libya to Italy.
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Columbus never set foot on the North American mainland during his 1492 exploration seeking a sea route to Asia.
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Armed with this technique and a regular laptop computer, Chabukswar and Mukherjee calculated the sea route in just 10 minutes.
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In fact, it links up the Belt, which is the land route, and the Road, which is the sea route.
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After all, it is through its territorial waters that the Arctic's most trafficked shipping lane, the Northern Sea Route (NSR), passes.
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"Currently, we do not see the Northern Sea Route as an alternative to our usual routes," a spokeswoman for Maersk said.
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Turmoil in the Persian Gulf also increases the attractiveness of Russia's northern sea route as a replacement energy and trade corridor.
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Given the potential cost savings from quicker voyages, L.N.G. shipments to Asia along the Northern Sea Route are expected to increase.
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In the Arctic arena, Moscow calculated that it could dominate the Northern Sea Route and monopolize access to polar mineral wealth.
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Most were detained after arriving by boat, brought to Australia by people smugglers across a dangerous sea route hundreds of miles long.
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What's more, the most expeditious sea route from Pakistan to Siberia would involve a trip through Indonesian waters, and the Philippine Sea.
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Along with the North Sea Route to Europe, jointly developed with Russia, those are all investments of great strategic importance to China.
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He expressed concern about Moscow's claim over the Northern Sea Route and its efforts to expand its military presence in the Arctic.
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The Northern Sea Route is significantly shorter than going via the Suez Canal and could cut sea transport times from Asia to Europe.
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Russian natural gas producer Novatek delivered the first ever liquefied natural gas (LNG) cargo to China via the Northern Sea Route in July.
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Since 2015, over 20143,000 migrants have taken the sea route from Turkey to the island in the hope of receiving asylum in Europe.
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There were just 19 full transits between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans last year, according to the Northern Sea Route Information Office in Murmansk.
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Russia eventually expects that global warming will open up a competitive sea route to Asia through the Arctic, with China being a prime market.
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The Northwest Passage — the long sought-after sea route from Europe to the Pacific Ocean through the Arctic circle — is quickly becoming more navigable.
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Until recently, the ships required to install these cables couldn't navigate the icy Northwest Passage, the arctic sea route connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.
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To shut off the sea route to Greece, the European Union is paying billions of euros to a Turkish government that is dismantling its democracy.
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"This is a matter of national pride ... if Russia wants to maintain strong, economic development, the Northern Sea Route is part of that," Humpert said.
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If the cargo is delivered into North Asia, it will be shipped via the Arctic sea route which has just opened for summer, they added.
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This "northern sea route" (NSR) is one-third shorter than the current route used to link Europe and East Asia through the Suez Canal (henceforth referred to as the "southern sea route" or SSR), though the route will take some time to become competitive due to the lack of emergency ports along Russia's northern coast and unpredictable Russian transit fees that translate into high insurance premiums.
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And since today we can observe an open sea route from the Pacific all along the Alaskan coast to the entrance of the Canadian Archipelago. pic.twitter.
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The number of days of navigation across the Northern sea route has been going up dramatically off late which means we will have greater transportation potential.
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It is also a poignant issue for Malta, which is on the dangerous sea route that many African migrants have used to try to reach Europe.
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More than 100,000 people have already entered Greece so far this year, the vast majority taking a dangerous sea route from Turkey to the tiny Greek islands.
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But supplies are falling even from this centuries-old Arabian sea route that is one of the last lifelines to a country on the brink of famine.
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Though the North Sea Route is still a very tricky passage to navigate, climate change is opening up that shipping lane for longer stretches of the year.
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China, which defines itself as a 'near-Arctic state', has an ambition to gain greater access to untapped resources and faster trade through the Northern Sea Route.
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Mustafa al-Jaffrey, who used to send cars to Yemen overland through Oman before the war, said he had doubled his profits by using the sea route.
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The Portuguese mariners who pioneered the sea route to the Indian Ocean brought with them not just their religion but also the prevalent European faith in monopolies.
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Russian officials have said there is strong interest in the sea route from Asian countries and that new icebreakers will allow for year-round navigation in the 2020s.
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The system's defense coverage will encompass all islands and archipelagos along the strategic Northern Sea Route that is under development to quicken shipping times between Europe and Asia.
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"The trial passage will enable us to explore the operational feasibility of container shipping through the Northern Sea Route and to collect data," Maersk said in a statement.
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Shipping through the Northern Sea Route would shave almost 20 days off the regular time using the traditional route through the Suez Canal, the newspaper reported last month.
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Lay the blame for the squalid conditions in the camp on the 2016 European Union-Turkey agreement, struck to discourage refugees from taking the sea route to Europe.
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The plant's two reactors sit atop a nearly 20113-foot platform, which will be pulled by tugboats through the Northern Sea Route starting next month, according to CNN.
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The plant's two reactors sit atop a nearly 500-foot platform, which will be pulled by tugboats through the Northern Sea Route starting next month, according to CNN.
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The number of people reaching Europe by the so-called Western Mediterranean land and sea route to Spain has surpassed the number arriving to Italy by boat this year.
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But Russian officials have said there is strong interest in the sea route from Asian countries and that new icebreakers will allow for year-round navigation in the 2020s.
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The sea route will connect with an overland trading network called the Silk Road Economic Belt from China and Central Asia to Europe's major centers of commerce and finance.
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After that, the CSU pushed for the Mediterranean Sea route for migrants to be closed by sending them back to Africa rather than allowing them to stay in Europe.
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The opening up of the Northern Sea Route, with a landmark Russian Arctic LNG shipment heading for Asia, may make Russian cargoes more attractive for Chinese buyers, traders said.
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The Northwest Passage, a sea route that connects the North Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, is often choked with sea ice, but in August 2016, it was nearly ice-free.
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Turkey became one of the main launch points for more than a million migrants from the Middle East and Africa taking the sea route to European Union territory in 2015.
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For example, Putin & Co. evidently will assert jurisdiction over foreign shipping farther offshore than the law of the sea allows, where the Northern Sea Route widens beyond 12 nautical miles.
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Tens of thousands of Africans take the dangerous Mediterranean Sea route as a gateway to a better life in Europe, alongside those fleeing wars in countries like Syria and Afghanistan.
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China and Russia recently announced that they would set up a joint research center that would study, among other things, changes in sea ice conditions along the Northern Sea Route.
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Turkey became one of the main launch points for migrants taking the sea route to the EU in 2015, many fleeing conflict and poverty in the Middle East and Africa.
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Many thousands more Libyans and refugees have died since from militia violence, renewed civil war and — with the breakdown of coastal immigration controls — drownings on the sea route to Europe.
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The I SEA App, available on iTunes, divides a satellite image of the sea route migrants are taking into millions of small plots which are, in turn, assigned to registered users.
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More piracy around the Horn of Africa, more congestion in the Strait of Malacca, more terrorist attacks in the Suez Canal: all render control of the Northern Sea Route strategically important.
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But the United States never claimed sovereignty — ownership — over the Caribbean or Gulf of Mexico the way Moscow appears set to claim sovereignty over the Northern Sea Route and perhaps beyond.
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A Sea Shepherd vessel was denied Russian permission to pursue the freighter through the Northern Sea Route, an increasingly ice-free stretch of the Arctic Ocean that hugs the Russian coast.
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Over the summer, a Maersk vessel loaded with Russian fish became the first container vessel to complete an Arctic sea route that Moscow is planning as part of an Arctic superhighway.
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Russia has made developing the so-called northern sea route (NSR) - which requires new ports and heavy icebreakers to move goods - a priority, with supporters dubbing the route the northern Suez Canal.
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It is a major trade route, described by the U.S. Energy Information Administration as the shortest sea route between crude oil suppliers in the Middle East and Africa, and markets in Asia.
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Lampedusa is roughly equidistant from Sicily, Malta and Tunisia and, as such, lies directly on the perilous sea route taken by the thousands of refugees who attempt to reach Europe each month.
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Russia's northern coast is no longer perennially encased with ice, and ships already pass through the Northern Sea Route each summer, an efficient way to transport goods between East Asia and Europe.
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In April, Mr. Putin appeared alongside Mr. Xi in Beijing to propose linking the thawing Northern Sea Route in Russian waters with China's huge infrastructure drive, known as the Belt and Road.
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At the same time, a Chinese icebreaker on a scientific mission completed a circumpolar navigation, traversing both the Northern Sea Route along Russia's northern shore and the Northwest Passage atop North America.
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Circumnavigating the South China Sea to avoid conflict would be more expensive for shipping firms as the waters serve as part of the most direct sea route between the Asian and European continents.
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But much of what Russia is building is an extensive network of search-and-rescue bases to serve shipping along the Northern Sea Route, an increasingly viable freight passage as the climate warms.
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Indeed, the BBC reports that after the announcement of the Greece-Turkey agreement, there has already been a spike in migrant traffic along the very dangerous sea route across the strait of Sicily.
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Most migrants attempting to reach Europe from Africa take the sea route from Libya to Italy, but last year saw a spike in the number of people departing from Morocco to Spain instead.
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Increased traffic along the Northern Sea Route comes at the expense of commercial traffic through the Suez Canal, which is projected to decrease around 66% from its current baseline as soon as 2030.
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The details: Danish shipping giant Maersk will send the first cargo container vessel unaided through the Arctic's Northern Sea Route, departing from Vladivostok this week and passing the Bering Strait on Sept. 1.
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"I think it's a small step towards a future where we'll see much larger container ships using the Northern Sea Route, but I wouldn't want to exaggerate the relatively small step," Byers said.
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The 18-year-old says she was raped by a soldier in Myanmar, and even the risks associated with taking the perilous sea route from Bangladesh to Malaysia seem preferable to returning home.
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"Russia is keen on maintaining control over the Northern Sea Route, due to its proximity to some important military and economic infrastructure of Russia's, and the source of revenue it represents," she said.
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The tanker company that operates the Eduard Toll, Teekay, posted a video of the voyage through the Northern Sea Route — one of the main passages ships use to bring Arctic commodities to global ports.
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He was taken across the Sahara desert to the western Libyan smuggling hub of Sabratha, and waited there with other migrants for about four months before being told the sea route had been closed.
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Turkey became one of the main launch points for more than a million migrants taking the sea route to EU countries in 2015, many fleeing conflict and poverty in the Middle East and Africa.
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ROME (Reuters) - About 33,055 migrants were rescued and 22 found dead on the perilous sea route to Europe on Monday, one of the highest numbers in a single day, Italian and Libyan officials said.
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Last year, Costa told Chinese state television that Portugal wanted to "actively participate" in Beijing's plans to develop a maritime sea route as part of the trade route initiative, dubbed the new Silk Road.
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Turkey became one of the main launch points for more than a million migrants taking the sea route to EU territory in 2015, many fleeing conflict and poverty in the Middle East and Africa.
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The crossing is far more dangerous than that between Turkey and Greece, which was the busiest sea route until a deal to curb flows between the European Union and Turkey came into force in March.
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Frontex said the Black Sea route was last active in 2014 but did not expect it to develop on a large scale due to difficult sailing conditions on the Black Sea, especially as autumn nears.
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Most ships operating in the Arctic fly Russian flags, and the country's leaders plan to invest tens of billions of dollars in coming years to beef up polar shipping activity along the Northern Sea Route.
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The islands are of strategic value because they lie at the mouth of the Gulf of Aqaba, the only sea route to the Jordanian port of Aqaba and the port city of Eilat, in Israel.
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Humanitarian organizations say the sea route between Libya and Italy is now the main route for asylum seekers heading for Europe, after an EU deal with Turkey dramatically slowed the flow of people reaching Greece.
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Russia is building new infrastructure and overhauling its ports as, amid warmer climate cycles, it readies for more traffic via what it calls the Northern Sea Route (NSR) which it envisages being navigable year-round.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin has made developing the northern sea route (NSR) - which requires new ports and heavy icebreakers to move goods - one of his priorities, with supporters dubbing the route the northern Suez Canal.
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Last week, Saudi Arabia said it was suspending oil shipments through the strait, on the main sea route from the Middle East to Europe, after Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthis attacked two ships in the waterway.
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China, a nation of 1.38 billion people, will also likely be seeking support in Goa for a proposed trade route through Central Asia and Russia to Europe, and for a sea route traversing the Indian Ocean.
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COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - A Maersk vessel loaded with Russian fish and South Korean electronics will next week become the first container ship to navigate an Arctic sea route that Russia hopes will become a new shipping highway.
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By April, when the new trans-Kazakh railway opens fully, executives in Iran hope to have cut the journey time to China (see map) to just eight days—a month less than the sea route takes.
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"Our plan is to keep the Northern Sea Route open twelve months a year in 2023 to 25 with 100-megawatt-hour nuclear icebreakers," Novatek Chief Financial Officer Mark Gyetvay told delegates at an energy conference.
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Putin also told his annual news conference that China was looking with great interest at Russia's northern sea route in the Arctic which could significantly cut the time for shipments of goods between Asia and Europe.
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The sea route from Libya to Italy is the main passage for migrants seeking to reach Europe, with almost 37,000 arrivals already this year, an increase of more than 36 percent on the same period last year.
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With nearly 20 percent of Russia's GDP derived from its Arctic resource base, their Arctic strategy of development, investment and related security efforts along the Northern Sea Route, for instance, is clearly linked to Russia's future economy.
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"I worry about their position there," he said, pointing to the Northern Sea Route, which cuts shipping time between Europe and Asia by 40% compared to the Suez Canal route but runs through Russia's Exclusive Economic Zone.
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And the noise levels may only get worse: Chinese officials are considering a transpolar sea route later this century, while energy firms from Europe, Russia, and the US are looking to the Arctic to fuel their economies.
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"I was a bit surprised they were able to go through that Northern Sea Route this time of year," said Jeremy Mathis, the director of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) Arctic Research Program, in an interview.
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The Finnish President mentioned that and talked about it most persuasively, the number of days that you can navigate the Northern Sea Route has been going up dramatically of late, which means that we'll have better transportation capabilities.
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The Finnish President mentioned that and talked about it most persuasively, the number of days that you can navigate the Northern Sea Route has been going up dramatically of late, which means that we'll have better transportation capabilities.
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"Winds are blowing the ice out of the Northern Sea Route along the coast of Russia" and towards North America, said Jeremy Mathis, Director of the Arctic Research Program at the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
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GENEVA (Reuters) - An estimated 113 people died in four shipwrecks between Libya and Italy at the weekend as the crossing becomes the preferred sea route for migrants to Europe, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) said on Tuesday.
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As calmer summer weather begins, European officials who struck a deal with Turkey to block crossings to Greece have been scrambling for ways to shut down flows on the other major sea route into the EU from Libya.
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Humanitarian organizations say the sea route between Libya and Italy is now the main route for asylum seekers heading for Europe, after a European Union deal on migrants with Turkey dramatically slowed the flow of people reaching Greece.
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The increase in private investment stemmed from revised plans for the modernisation of roads and railways, and from plans to boost cargo volumes through the Northern Sea Route, a spokesman for Deputy Prime Minister Maxim Akimov told Reuters.
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Greek officials said the number arrested at the land border with Turkey so far this year was about double the total for 2017, although the sea route to the eastern islands of the Aegean Sea remains more popular.
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After a deal between the EU and Turkey largely shut down the sea route to Greece last year, the main passage for migrants to Europe now is through Italy by boat from Libya, where people-smugglers operate with impunity.
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Alarmed at the recent influx or refugees, the European Union and Turkey agreed to seal off the sea route last month after Balkan states shut their borders to migrants trying to reach wealthy western Europe, stranding thousands in Greece.
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The opening up of the Northern Sea Route through the Arctic during the summer months has raised concerns from environmentalists, but for shipping companies it provides a much cheaper and faster way of transporting goods to and from China.
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"In the Northern Sea Route, Moscow already illegally demands that other nations request permission to pass, requires Russian maritime pilots to be aboard foreign ships, and threatens to use military force to sink any that fail to comply," Pompeo said.
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Echoing comments by Maltese Prime Minister Joseph Muscat on Thursday, Vella, whose tiny island country lies on the sea route from Africa to Italy, said he was concerned about increasing Russian involvement in Libya following its role in Syria's war.
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"In the Northern Sea Route, Moscow already illegally demands that other nations request permission to pass, requires Russian maritime pilots to be aboard foreign ships, and threatens to use military force to sink any that fail to comply," Pompeo said.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Russian gas producer Novatek wants to use nuclear icebreakers to keep the Northern Sea Route, a shipping path traversing the Arctic to Asia, open all year long for its liquefied natural gas (LNG), a top executive said on Wednesday.
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The war in Yemen has made land crossings to Gulf countries too dangerous, so the migrants took a sea route past Hodeidah, which Yemeni forces backed by the coalition are trying to isolate from other areas held by the Houthis.
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The new air corridor follows the opening last month of the so-called Lapis Lazuli corridor, a road, rail and sea route from western Afghanistan to Turkey and Europe, part of President Ashraf Ghani's push to build up Afghanistan's trade connections.
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And they see the Northern Sea Route (NSR), a shipping channel along the Siberian coast, as a potential revenue source as well as an area that needs to be protected from oil spills and controlled from a military security perspective.
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Since the end of the Soviet era there has been little shipping along the Arctic coast of Siberia on what is called the Northern Sea Route, from the Kara Sea in the west to the Bering Strait in the east.
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They lie at the mouth of the Gulf of Aqaba, a strategic corner of the Red Sea that gives them control over the only sea route to the Israeli port city of Eilat and the Jordanian port city of Aqaba.
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The Christophe de Margerie, a 984-foot tanker built specifically for the journey, became the first ship to complete the so-called Northern Sea Route without the aid of specialized ice-breaking vessels, the ship's owner, Sovcomflot, said in a statement.
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The massive vessel Eduard Toll, loaded with liquified natural gas from Siberia, successfully traversed through an icy Arctic sea route in January without any help from icebreaking ships — robust vessels that typically break through masses of ice to clear a path ahead.
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"But we need to understand that, if we talk about heavy projects in the nuclear industry, such as the Northern Sea Route (NSR) or industrial waste, of course, without support of the state as an anchor investor this is hard," he said.
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The Northern Sea Route is attracting other shipping firms: Maersk, the world's largest container shipping company, sent a test vessel along the route last summer while Dubai government-controlled DP World said last month it wanted to run ports along the route.
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Salvini, leader of the far-right, anti-immigration League, told reporters he did not want to see any more migrant boats leave Libyan shores bound for Italy, adding that European allies needed to do much more to help shut down the sea route.
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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's ambitious Northern Sea Route (NSR) requires 735 billion roubles ($11.7 billion) in investments, with the state budget to provide a third and the rest to come from companies and banks, the head of state nuclear firm Rosatom, Alexey Likhachyov, said.
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The Arctic voyage by the 3,600 20-foot container capacity Venta Maersk is the latest step in the expansion of the so-called Northern Sea Route which is becoming more accessible to ships as climate change reduces the amount of sea ice.
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DUBLIN (Reuters) - A new EU proposal to operate checks on goods along the Britain-Northern Ireland sea route will still mean an unacceptable border between the two, the deputy leader of the Northern Irish party backing Britain's minority government said on Wednesday.
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Under the tentative deal, the EU would admit one refugee directly from Turkey for each Syrian it took back from the Greek Aegean islands, and those who attempted the perilous sea route would be returned and go to the back of the queue.
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Total said the LNG would be delivered to international markets by a fleet of ice-class LNG carriers using the Northern Sea Route and a trans-shipment terminal in Kamchatka for cargoes to Asia, and one close to Murmansk for European cargoes.
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Russia, which essentially rents out its much larger fleet of icebreakers to guide foreign ships through the Northern Sea Route, is not crazy about the competition, according to a Pentagon analysis published this year as part of its annual report to Congress.
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Iran is a resource rich country of more than 80 million people, with the world's second-largest natural gas supplies and control over the sea route handling more than one-quarter of gas and a fifth of oil trade on a global scale.
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Related: The Number of Migrants Arriving in Greece Has Plummeted The crossing is far more dangerous than that between Turkey and Greece, which was the busiest sea route until a deal to curb flows between the European Union and Turkey came into force in March.
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Sending terrorists through the migrant routes from Turkey to Greece is becoming too hard, so ISIS is now actively working to smuggle its folks into Europe via a Mediterranean Sea route that starts in the failed state of Libya, where ISIS has gained a toehold.
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As the flow of people into Europe shifted this summer toward the sea route linking North Africa to Italy, Austria threatened to introduce border checks at the Brenner crossing, a vital transport link connecting Italy to northern Europe, if too many migrants headed its way.
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Over at Eurasia Daily Monitor, Pavel Felgenhauer has compiled an invaluable roundup of debates within the Duma and officialdom over what rights and privileges to claim in the Northern Sea Route, the sea lane that skirts along Russian coastlines between the Barents and Bering seas.
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STEM Articles Article: Where Ice Once Crushed Ships, Open Water Beckons Before Reading: For centuries, Western explorers sought a northern sea route linking the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, but waters there were usually covered by sea ice so impenetrable that it could trap ships.
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The project will benefit from extremely low cost gas, helping it compete against LNG from the United States and Canada despite higher shipping costs during winter when ships have to travel via Europe instead of the Northern Sea route, said Wood Mackenzie analyst Nicholas Browne.
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ST PETERSBURG, June 7 (Reuters) - DP World, one of the world's largest port operators, wants to run ports that Russia plans to build along the northern sea route in the Arctic to shorten shipping times between the east and west, its chief executive told Reuters.
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The European Union recently struck a deal with Turkey to stem the arrival of undocumented migrants and refugees to Greece, and European authorities have been scrambling to shut down flows on the other major sea route into the continent from Libya as calmer weather begins.
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"Russia envisions under Putin a northern sea route that is essentially a toll road that requires Russian Arctic escorts in the form of icebreakers or other patrol boats, escorting not only the Chinese but others who want to ship across the Arctic," she said.
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"It envisions a Polar Silk Road that stretches from Shanghai across potentially to Hamburg and Reykjavik and parts of Europe across Russia's vast northern sea route hugging the Russian coastline and both exploiting the energy resources there, potential transport opportunities, shipping, research," Goodman said.
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Although nations with Arctic lands, including the United States, have agreed to assist each other in the event of disaster, there is very little emergency infrastructure in either American or Canadian Arctic waters, or in Russia along what is known as the Northern Sea Route.
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LONDON, July 5 (Reuters) - A liquefied natural gas (LNG) tanker carrying a cargo from the Yamal LNG plant has spent this week making its way through Arctic waters north of Russia towards Asia, marking the first voyage of the 2019 summer season across the Northern Sea Route.
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Last year Finland's 1,340 km-long (833-mile) frontier with Russia - marking one of the external limits of the European Union's passport-free Schengen travel zone - became the northernmost crossing point to the EU for migrants keen to avoid the perilous Mediterranean sea route to the continent.
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After taking on a supply of nuclear fuel, the floating power plant will be towed across the Northern Sea Route to Pevek on the East Siberian Sea, where officials say it is expected to replace a coal-fired power plant and an aging nuclear power plant sometime next year.
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Despite an estimated 20% of ships passing through the Carreira da India, a sea route to India that da Gama discovered by passing around the Cape of Good Hope, very few wrecks have been found or unearthed, making the Esmerelda a rare look into the earliest sparks of globalization.
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When a blue-hulled cargo ship named Venta Maersk became the first container vessel to navigate a major Arctic sea route this month, it offered a glimpse of what the warming region might become: a maritime highway, with vessels lumbering between Asia and Europe through once-frozen seas.
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A third train is being built and expected to be launched next year that will raise total output to 16.5 million tonnes annually * In July, Novatek delivered the first ever LNG cargo to China via the Northern Sea Route alongside the Arctic coast, which drastically cuts delivery time to Asia.
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This week, Reuters reported that British oil giant BP was using its global shipping and trading network to embark upon an ambitious four-month pilot project of sorts: charting a 16,000-nautical-mile sea route involving seven tankers and a number of transfers to profitably get crude oil from Texas to Asia.
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Now that the European Union has struck a deal with Turkey to curb the record refugee flow into Greece, the question is whether the migrant flow into the Continent has been stanched, or whether migrants will simply find a different entry point, such as the more dangerous sea route from Libya into Italy.
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The rapidly thinning polar ice cap has opened huge opportunities for faster shipping, either along the Northern Sea Route over Russia or the Northwest Passage over Canada and Alaska, as well as access to vast troves of oil, gas and minerals that may be easier to reach as the ice grows thinner.
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But other routes, like the Northern Sea Route along Russia's northern shore are already navigable — albeit not easily — during certain times of the year, trimming some 30 percent to 40 percent off the distance ships would travel between East Asia and Northern Europe if they traversed the conventional Suez Canal route instead.
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Glacier loss, in particular, proceeded at a record pace between 2015 and 2019, according to last month's climate report from the UN. Russia President Vladimir Putin has been pushing forward with securing the Arctic for Russian interests, opening a string of military and research bases in the far north and increasing shipments through the Northern Sea Route, which has become increasingly accessible.
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The green group, along with pressure from the Baltic states, has already successfully lobbied Russia to move the loading of the Akademik Lomonosov from the densely-populated St. Petersburg to Murmansk, but there are major concerns about the transport across the Northern Sea Route to Pevek and the docking of the nuclear plant off the coast of the port town.
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S. will not accept more Turkish F-35 pilots over Russia defenses-sources * Iraqi oil minister says global output deal likely to be extended - RIA * Saudi energy minister says OPEC close to agreeing oil pact extension * Qatar's emir to visit White House on July 9 -White House statement * Turkish lira weakens again on concerns over U.S. ties * U.S. to stop training Turkish F-35 pilots because of Russia deal -sources * Fitch Says Escalation in Iran-US Tension Would be a Risk to GCC Sovereigns * Many oil exporters ready for a July 2-4 OPEC meeting in Vienna -Novak * Drone attacks target Jizan airport in Saudi Arabia - al masirah tv * Saudi energy minister says OPEC close to agreeing oil pact extension * DP World wants to operate ports along Russia's northern sea route * UAE says 'sophisticated' tanker attacks likely the work of a state actor * Qatar Airways to seek compensation from Boeing over MAX grounding Reporting By Dubai Newsroom
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