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Arctic shipping will change the world pattern (1)
In the voyage around the world, the Pacific Ocean and the Atlantic Ocean can only be connected by Panama Canal or Suez Canal, and even need to bypass the Cape of Good Hope in southern Africa. Compared with these routes, once the Arctic waterway is opened, it will greatly shorten the voyage and bring huge economic benefits. For example, it takes 29 days for a Japanese container to sail from Yokohama to the port of Rotterdam in the Netherlands via the Cape of Good Hope in Africa, and 22 days for a container to pass through the Straits of Malacca and Suez Canal in Singapore. However, if the same ship uses the Arctic route, it only takes 15 days to arrive.
In addition, once the Arctic waterway is opened, it can also alleviate the increasingly serious congestion in the Straits of Malacca and the Suez Canal and avoid the increasingly rampant threat of Somali pirates.
Professor Lu from Jiangnan Academy of Social Sciences believes that the opening of the Arctic waterway will not only directly change the original world marine transportation pattern, but also enhance the overall strategic position of the Arctic region. The new route will promote the economic development along the route, give birth to some new residential areas, promote the expansion of existing ports and cities, and the geopolitical influence of the route through the country will also be enhanced.
At the same time, the new route will disperse some trade goods in the original channel, reduce the weight and status of the original global shipping line, and the influence and status of the country where the route is located will also be affected. The strategic position of the middle way in the earth has declined, and the strategic position of the Arctic region has risen. This change will lead to the shift of the world's center of gravity to the north and change the world pattern to some extent.
On March 29th, 20021year, the website of Spanish Herald published an article by journalist Gonzalo aragones, entitled "The blockade of Suez Canal increases Russian expectation for the Arctic waterway". The full text is as follows:
Although the amount of goods carried through the Arctic waterway is very small, it can not be regarded as a real alternative route for world trade today, but the blockade of the Suez Canal has given Russia the impetus to continue to promote the development of the Arctic waterway. The melting of Arctic ice and climate change may make this waterway become the main road of world trade in the near future. At present, Russia exports LNG to Asian customers through this waterway, and it is expected that this trade activity will increase exponentially in the next decade.
The blockade of the Egyptian Canal shows Russia that it should continue to develop waterways parallel to its Arctic coast. Nikolai Korchunov, a senior official of the Russian Arctic Council, said, "We should consider how to effectively organize the transportation and development of the Suez Canal, especially the alternatives of the Arctic waterway".
Carrying goods through the Arctic waterway can shorten the voyage between Asia and Europe by 40%, that is, 15 days, which obviously can greatly save economic costs. The 5000-kilometer voyage from Barents Sea to Bering Strait is the shortest passage between Europe and Asia.
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