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China plans first commercial trip through Arctic shortcut in 2013
2013-03-12 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: A Chinese shipping firm is planning the country's first commercial voyage through a shortcut across the Arctic Ocean to the United States and Europe in 2013, a leading Chinese scientist said on Tuesday. Huigen Yang, director general of the Polar Research Institute of China, told Reuters that the trip he led last year on the icebreaker Xuelong, or Snowdragon, to explore the route had "greatly encouraged" Chinese shipping companies. "One commercial voyage by a Chinese shipping company may take...
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