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It’s an order from the Kremlin: shipping on Northern Sea Route to reach 80 million tons by 2024 | The Independent Barents Observer
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The Northern Sea Route will be the key to the development of the Russian Arctic and the regions of the Far East. By 2025, its traffic will increase tenfold, to 80 million tons,» Putin underlined.
The president’s ambitions for the NSR significantly exceeds estimates previously presented by the country’s Ministry of Natural Resources. A memo from the ministry says that shipping volumes could increase to 67 million tons by 2025 and to 72 million tons in 2030. Half of it will be LNG, and much of it will be shipped eastwards through the ice-covered waters of the Russian east Arctic
Only about five months after it opened, the Yamal LNG announced that volumes shipped out through the ice-covered waters had exceeded two million tons of liquified natural gas.
Another substantial part of the goods increase on the NSR will be coal. According to company VostokCoal, as much as 30 million tons of high-quality coal is to be extracted annually by 2025 from the Taybass basin in Taymyr Peninsula. Already in 2019, production will amount to ten million tons, the company has said.