A Ship Sails North, and the China-Russia Arctic Shipping Route Comes Alive

A Chinese container ship left the port of Ningbo-Zhoushan on August 15 and turned north, opening what its operator calls the world’s first regularly scheduled container line through the Arctic — and tying Beijing and Moscow together more tightly than any diplomatic summit could. The vessel, the Dubai Tower, is now crossing Russia’s Arctic coastline […] The post A Ship Sails North, and the…