Putin opens the Arctic sea route

The Russia President enacted a law that regulates for the first time the navigation in this way. Due to climate change, opens this option that would revolutionize the global transport

The importance of this road lies in that was to become the alternative to the Suez canal to transport goods. But if there is, such and as admitted Russian President, is by climate change which has reduced the ice sheets

The law establishes the legal status and the boundaries of the transport routeand provides for the establishment of an administrative body that will manage the navigation, said the Kremlin in a statement today. It also includes the rules of navigation and the cost of the lease of vessels required icebreakers to circulate through the area that is covered by ice throughout the year.

Another of its objectives is to promote the construction of modern infrastructure that will ensure the safety of ships throughout his entire journey. "You have to invest in the icebreaker fleet and ports development." "Everyone should take us by Arctic power", for his part said the Prime Minister, Dmitri Medvedev, during a visit to the Russian Far East. Russia is the only country in the world featuring a fleet of icebreaker Atomic, which would have a monopoly on the route.

Putin supported the Arctic sea route in September last year during an international forum, on the grounds that "this (Arctic) is almost one third shorter than the traditional route".

Considerable reduction of the layer of ice covering the Arctic Ocean, due to global warming and climate change, allowed two years ago that a Russian tanker opened this route with the help of several icebreakers. "The climate change that gradually increases the period of navigation and technological progress open to humankind new territories to discover in the Arctic region"."And clearly, that the economy will grow," Putin acknowledged.

 Russia will build new ports on the coast of the Arctic, where ships can stock up and mooring in case of accident and will have centres for coordination of rescue operations, said.  A boat has to go 10,600 kilometrospara reach to the North from the Russian city of Murmansk (Barentssea, close to the border with Norway and Finland) to the Chinese port of Shanghai, while if you choose to cross the Suez canal needed grace 17,700 kilometers.