The Russian oil and gas industry is stimulating Arctic transportation. Two oil tankers, which left the Baltic ports in mid-July, will pass through the Northern Sea Route, heading to China.
Two Aframaks ships of the Primorskiy Prospekt and NS Arctic ice class, owned by the Russian shipping leader Sovcomflot, set off from Ust-Luga and Primorsk along the Northern Sea Route to the port of Zhizhao with a cargo of 224,000 tons of oil.
According to the plans, the transition will take a little more than a month, up to 31-36 days, the route will stretch for 8,600 nautical miles. The tankers will be provided with icebreakers of Rosatom working on the route.
Earlier, the state corporation said to oil companies that it makes it possible to redirect part of the Russian supplies of oil and petroleum products from the Baltic ports along the Northern Sea Route to the east.
The northern route is considered the safest today amid sanctions restrictions. However, oil transportation along the Northern Sea Route in the eastern direction is still limited to the period of summer-autumn navigation: from July to November.
Alex Shishlo for Rough&Polished
