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FarCenter

(19,429 posts) Wed Sep 11, 2013, 10:47 PM Sep 2013

1st Chinese ship crosses Arctic Ocean

BEIJING: A Chinese cargo ship crossed the Arctic Ocean for the first time reaching Rotterdam in the Netherlands on Tuesday.

The voyage is regarded by some shipping experts as an audacious feat and has opened up a new sea route for China. The new route opened up after global warming made it possible to travel over parts of the usually frozen Arctic Ocean.

The voyage by the ship 'Yong Sheng' took two weeks less than the 45 days it takes for a ship from China going to Europe using the conventional Suez Canal and Malacca Straits routes. Chinese shippers will be able to use the new route from July to November with the help of Russian ice breakers.

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/china/1st-Chinese-ship-crosses-Arctic-Ocean/articleshow/22503317.cms

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1st Chinese ship crosses Arctic Ocean (Original Post) FarCenter Sep 2013 OP

Yay, a totally new environment for us to fuck up. Gotta love globalism. Gravitycollapse Sep 2013 #1

All that time wasted by Henry Hudson... jberryhill Sep 2013 #2

In 1608, Hudson explored the Northeast passage above Russia getting as far as Novaya Zemlya FarCenter Sep 2013 #3

Gravitycollapse

(8,155 posts)

1. Yay, a totally new environment for us to fuck up. Gotta love globalism.

Reply to FarCenter (Original post)

Wed Sep 11, 2013, 10:49 PM

Sep 2013

jberryhill

(62,444 posts)

2. All that time wasted by Henry Hudson...

Reply to FarCenter (Original post)

Wed Sep 11, 2013, 10:56 PM

Sep 2013

It figgers.

Europeans spent all that time looking for a Northwest Passage to China, and then the Chinese go and find one for themselves.

FarCenter

(19,429 posts)

3. In 1608, Hudson explored the Northeast passage above Russia getting as far as Novaya Zemlya

Reply to jberryhill (Reply #2)

Thu Sep 12, 2013, 11:12 AM

Sep 2013

In 1609, he was commissioned again to go east, but being blocked by ice north of Norway, he again turned to the west and explored the coast of North America.

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