Russia seizes on Suez blockage to promote merits of Arctic route

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As hundreds of ships and tankers were held up in the Suez Canal, Russia has been reminding Europe of the benefits of unblockable pipelines of the alternative northern sea route to Asia along its Arctic coast, where the width and depth of vessels are not in question..
The Suez blockage could also serve as a trump card for Russia’s Nord Stream-2 gas pipeline.

https://www.ft.com/content/47b4cca2-b673-4763-95b4-555bd03a948a


The northern sea route shipped 33m tonnes of cargo last year, while the Suez Canal, unblocked on Monday after a week of disruption, transports more than 3m tonnes of cargo daily. But given rising trade volumes, the emergence of additional short routes for cargo delivery is inevitable, Russia’s energy ministry said.

“The northern sea route . . . has high potential in expanding the cargo transportation volume, allowing to significantly cut the duration of goods transportation from Asia to Europe,” it said.

Even though year-round navigation is not expected until 2025-2030 and climate risks remain, Rosatom, Russia’s state nuclear corporation and the body in charge of the northern sea route, expects a rise in demand for the route after the Suez incident.

“The northern sea route’s development hedges logistical risks and makes global trade more sustainable. Undoubtedly, such Asian countries as China, Japan, and South Korea will take the precedent of the Suez Canal’s blockage into consideration in their long-term strategic plans,”
said Vladimir Panov, a special representative for Arctic development at Rosatom, according to Interfax news agency.

“The situation is positive for Russian companies and economy for a number of reasons. That includes the fact that in the long run, the current circumstances serve as a heavy argument in favour of using the northern sea route as an alternative to the Suez Canal,” said Anna Butko, an oil and gas analyst at Aton, a Moscow brokerage.

Demand for railway cargo shipments across Russia has already increased, with Trans-Siberian railway bookings multiplying in the past few days, Russian freight company TransContainer told media.

Moscow also wasted no time in reminding global energy markets that it provides unimpeded oil and gas deliveries.

“Russia’s unique geographical position gives it the natural advantage in the energy market as far as access to key consumer markets goes, as well as the speed of delivery of energy supplies,” the energy ministry said, praising its extensive oil and gas pipelines network to Europe, Turkey and China for reliability and competitive costs.

As for oil, not only did the Suez blockage have no significant effect on Russia’s exports because the canal is not the main route for them, it may add upward pressure on Moscow’s benchmark Urals blend’s price, as well as that of spot gas prices in Europe, Butko said.

The gas market offers an even greater upside. While Qatar, one of the world’s largest liquefied natural gas producers, sending on average five LNG cargoes to Europe via the Suez Canal each week, has 500,000 tonnes stuck in the Gulf of Suez, Russia can easily make up for gas volumes Europe may need to replenish the low underground stock levels, according to Rystad Energy consultancy.

“Given that Russian pipeline supplies to Europe are currently below maximum capacity, Russian supplies could help provide some flexibility,” Carlos Torres Diaz, head of gas and power markets at Rystad, said in a note.

“Looking at who benefits most from the current situation, Russia is definitely the country not in a hurry to see the blockade resolved,” he added.

The Suez blockage could also serve as a trump card for Russia’s Nord Stream-2 gas pipeline. The controversial project that would carry gas directly from Russia to Europe avoiding Ukraine has been delayed for two years under strong US pressure.

However, Russia has been affected to some degree by the Suez blockage. There are 2.5m barrels of Russian oil waiting to resume their journey via the canal to customers in Asia. Several empty LNG tankers used by Novatek, Russia’s largest LNG producer, are also stuck on their return.

But in the long run, Moscow is banking on shipping companies and energy buyers turning to Russia for alternatives. “The current force majeure confirms the repeatedly proven fact that diversification and the existence of many alternatives is positive for the global economy,” Butko said.
 
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Russia cheekily pushed the Northern Sea Route on Thursday as an “alternative” to Egypt’s Suez Canal after a huge container ship blocked the busy shipping lane. President Vladimir Putin has long promoted the passage along the country’s Siberian coast as a rival to the Suez Canal, and Russia seized on the Egyptian route’s traffic jam to play it up again. The Japanese-owned, Panama-flagged MV Ever Given got stuck Tuesday during a sandstorm, blocking the waterway that connects the Mediterranean with the Red Sea and which handles more than 10 percent of global maritime trade.

Russia’s nuclear agency Rosatom on Thursday gave three tongue-in-cheek reasons “to consider Northern Sea Route as a viable alternative to the Suez Canal Route”. The first reason, Rosatom said on its English-language Twitter account, was that the Arctic passage provides “way more space to draw peculiar pictures using your giant ships”. Rosatom included a link to a news article that reported that a tracking map showed the giant ship had made the shape of male genitals before becoming stuck. If ships get stuck in the Northern Sea Route, Russia would send ice-breakers to help dislodge them, said the nuclear agency, which is the passage’s official infrastructure operator.

Rosatom also posted an animated image from the “Austin Powers” series depicting its main character stuck in a shuttle car reversing back and forth in a narrow tunnel — photoshopped with the Panama-flagged vessel. “You might get stuck in the Suez Canal for days,” the nuclear agency said. A Dutch salvage firm that has sent experts to help move the Suez ship said Wednesday that recovering it could take days or weeks.

Russia has invested heavily in the development of the Northern Sea Route that allows ships to cut the journey to Asian ports by 15 days compared with the conventional route through the Suez Canal. As the route becomes increasingly free of ice due to climate change, Moscow is planning to use it to export oil and gas to overseas markets. On Thursday, Russia’s weather monitor said the route was “in some years almost completely free of ice” by the end of the summer, having reached a “record low level” of ice cover in 2020.
http://north-africa.com/2021/03/egy...thern-sea-route-as-alternative-to-suez-canal/
 
A nice reminder of how the Russians intend to own the Arctic.
China is also involved with minerals and hydrocarbon extraction - but yes Russia does intend just that.
They are trying to open up commercial shipping,to using Northern Sea Route
as a viable alternative to the Suez Canal Route which would benefit China


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In a video still image a Russian flag is planted by the Mir-1 mini submarine on the seafloor under the Arctic ice sheet in August 2007. Several northern countries, including Denmark, Canada, United States, Norway, and Russia have competing claims over which country has rights to the mineral and carbon resources under the ocean floor. (Photo: Association of Russian Polar Explorers)
 
China is also involved with minerals and hydrocarbon extraction - but yes Russia does intend just that.
They are trying to open up commercial shipping,to consider Northern Sea Route as a viable alternative to the Suez Canal Route which would benefit China

russian_flag_arctic.png

In a video still image a Russian flag is planted by the Mir-1 mini submarine on the seafloor under the Arctic ice sheet in August 2007. Several northern countries, including Denmark, Canada, United States, Norway, and Russia have competing claims over which country has rights to the mineral and carbon resources under the ocean floor. (Photo: Association of Russian Polar Explorers)

You hear some chatter sometimes in Washington about how we are not even trying to counter the Empire in the Artic but it never goes anywhere, we are not going to put up resistance.
 
You hear some chatter sometimes in Washington about how we are not even trying to counter the Empire in the Arctic but it never goes anywhere, we are not going to put up resistance.
we've badly dealt with Chin, and Biden is a lamb to slaughter with his heavy emphasis on human rights
in dealing with China
The UK and Biden have said there has to be a united front against malign China -but the EU
just signed a financial normalization agreemeent act with China
 
America has been trying to build icebreakers for some 20-25 years, we basically dont have any anymore, they never made the priority list even in the face a massive escalation of the military budgets.

The brain trust that decides military budgets never cared....basically not a one of them......over all of those years.

I give you the Failed Intelligentsia!

Real Winners!
 
we've badly dealt with Chin, and Biden is a lamb to slaughter with his heavy emphasis on human rights
in dealing with China
The UK and Biden have said there has to be a united front against malign China -but the EU
just signed a financial normalization agreemeent act with China

There has been no doubt in my mind that Europe will not counter China.

Neither will America, its basically over now.
 
As hundreds of ships and tankers were held up in the Suez Canal, Russia has been reminding Europe of the benefits of unblockable pipelines of the alternative northern sea route to Asia along its Arctic coast, where the width and depth of vessels are not in question..
The Suez blockage could also serve as a trump card for Russia’s Nord Stream-2 gas pipeline.

https://www.ft.com/content/47b4cca2-b673-4763-95b4-555bd03a948a


The northern sea route shipped 33m tonnes of cargo last year, while the Suez Canal, unblocked on Monday after a week of disruption, transports more than 3m tonnes of cargo daily. But given rising trade volumes, the emergence of additional short routes for cargo delivery is inevitable, Russia’s energy ministry said.

“The northern sea route . . . has high potential in expanding the cargo transportation volume, allowing to significantly cut the duration of goods transportation from Asia to Europe,” it said.

Even though year-round navigation is not expected until 2025-2030 and climate risks remain, Rosatom, Russia’s state nuclear corporation and the body in charge of the northern sea route, expects a rise in demand for the route after the Suez incident.

“The northern sea route’s development hedges logistical risks and makes global trade more sustainable. Undoubtedly, such Asian countries as China, Japan, and South Korea will take the precedent of the Suez Canal’s blockage into consideration in their long-term strategic plans,”
said Vladimir Panov, a special representative for Arctic development at Rosatom, according to Interfax news agency.

“The situation is positive for Russian companies and economy for a number of reasons. That includes the fact that in the long run, the current circumstances serve as a heavy argument in favour of using the northern sea route as an alternative to the Suez Canal,” said Anna Butko, an oil and gas analyst at Aton, a Moscow brokerage.

Demand for railway cargo shipments across Russia has already increased, with Trans-Siberian railway bookings multiplying in the past few days, Russian freight company TransContainer told media.

Moscow also wasted no time in reminding global energy markets that it provides unimpeded oil and gas deliveries.

“Russia’s unique geographical position gives it the natural advantage in the energy market as far as access to key consumer markets goes, as well as the speed of delivery of energy supplies,” the energy ministry said, praising its extensive oil and gas pipelines network to Europe, Turkey and China for reliability and competitive costs.

As for oil, not only did the Suez blockage have no significant effect on Russia’s exports because the canal is not the main route for them, it may add upward pressure on Moscow’s benchmark Urals blend’s price, as well as that of spot gas prices in Europe, Butko said.

The gas market offers an even greater upside. While Qatar, one of the world’s largest liquefied natural gas producers, sending on average five LNG cargoes to Europe via the Suez Canal each week, has 500,000 tonnes stuck in the Gulf of Suez, Russia can easily make up for gas volumes Europe may need to replenish the low underground stock levels, according to Rystad Energy consultancy.

“Given that Russian pipeline supplies to Europe are currently below maximum capacity, Russian supplies could help provide some flexibility,” Carlos Torres Diaz, head of gas and power markets at Rystad, said in a note.

“Looking at who benefits most from the current situation, Russia is definitely the country not in a hurry to see the blockade resolved,” he added.

The Suez blockage could also serve as a trump card for Russia’s Nord Stream-2 gas pipeline. The controversial project that would carry gas directly from Russia to Europe avoiding Ukraine has been delayed for two years under strong US pressure.

However, Russia has been affected to some degree by the Suez blockage. There are 2.5m barrels of Russian oil waiting to resume their journey via the canal to customers in Asia. Several empty LNG tankers used by Novatek, Russia’s largest LNG producer, are also stuck on their return.

But in the long run, Moscow is banking on shipping companies and energy buyers turning to Russia for alternatives. “The current force majeure confirms the repeatedly proven fact that diversification and the existence of many alternatives is positive for the global economy,” Butko said.

Well relocate to Russia and canal your way to Siberia and who cares. Consider these facts versus your misconstrued trolling analysis:


Panama Canal Sets Record Cargo Volume for FY 2018

The Panama Canal closed its 2018 fiscal year with a record tonnage of 442.1 million Panama Canal tons (PC/UMS), representing a 9.5 percent increase from the previous year.

With this number, the Panama Canal surpasses the cargo projections of 429.4 million PC/UMS tons for FY 2018, as well as the 403.8 million PC/UMS tons registered in FY 2017.

“The Panama Canal continues to exceed our expectations, reinforcing every day the importance of the waterway’s expansion and its impact on global maritime trade,” Jorge L. Quijano, Panama Canal Administrator, said.

The increase was driven by the transit of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) and liquefied natural gas (LNG) carriers, containerships, chemical tankers and vehicle carriers.

The container segment continued to serve as the leading market segment for tonnage through the canal, accounting for 159 million PC/UMS tons of the total cargo, of which 112.6 million PC/UMS tons transited the expanded canal. Tankers, including LPG and LNG carriers, followed close with a total of 130.3 million PC/UMS tons.

The third ranked segments included bulk carriers with 73.7 million PC/UMS tons, while vehicle carriers took fourth place with 49.5 million PC/UMS tons seen during the year.

In terms of cargo tonnage, the main routes using the Panama Canal in FY 2018 were between Asia and the U.S. East Coast, the West Coast of South America and the U.S. East Coast, the West Coast of South America and Europe, the West Coast of Central America and the U.S. East Coast and intercoastal South America.

Panama Canal said that the main users during the period were the U.S., China, Mexico, Chile and Japan, while some 62.8 percent of the total cargo transiting the canal had its origin or destination in the United States."

https://www.offshore-energy.biz/panama-canal-sets-record-cargo-volume-for-fy-2018/
 
America has been trying to build icebreakers for some 20-25 years, we basically dont have any anymore, they never made the priority list even in the face a massive escalation of the military budgets.

The brain trust that decides military budgets never cared....basically not a one of them......over all of those years.

I give you the Failed Intelligentsia!

Real Winners!

Any idea how much it would cost to harden the hulls of ships to resist pack ice, especially as a retro-fit?
 
Well relocate to Russia and canal your way to Siberia and who cares. Consider these facts versus your misconstrued trolling analysis:


Panama Canal Sets Record Cargo Volume for FY 2018

The Panama Canal closed its 2018 fiscal year with a record tonnage of 442.1 million Panama Canal tons (PC/UMS), representing a 9.5 percent increase from the previous year.

With this number, the Panama Canal surpasses the cargo projections of 429.4 million PC/UMS tons for FY 2018, as well as the 403.8 million PC/UMS tons registered in FY 2017.

“The Panama Canal continues to exceed our expectations, reinforcing every day the importance of the waterway’s expansion and its impact on global maritime trade,” Jorge L. Quijano, Panama Canal Administrator, said.

The increase was driven by the transit of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) and liquefied natural gas (LNG) carriers, containerships, chemical tankers and vehicle carriers.

The container segment continued to serve as the leading market segment for tonnage through the canal, accounting for 159 million PC/UMS tons of the total cargo, of which 112.6 million PC/UMS tons transited the expanded canal. Tankers, including LPG and LNG carriers, followed close with a total of 130.3 million PC/UMS tons.

The third ranked segments included bulk carriers with 73.7 million PC/UMS tons, while vehicle carriers took fourth place with 49.5 million PC/UMS tons seen during the year.

In terms of cargo tonnage, the main routes using the Panama Canal in FY 2018 were between Asia and the U.S. East Coast, the West Coast of South America and the U.S. East Coast, the West Coast of South America and Europe, the West Coast of Central America and the U.S. East Coast and intercoastal South America.

Panama Canal said that the main users during the period were the U.S., China, Mexico, Chile and Japan, while some 62.8 percent of the total cargo transiting the canal had its origin or destination in the United States."

https://www.offshore-energy.biz/panama-canal-sets-record-cargo-volume-for-fy-2018/

"Jimmy Carter and Panamanian dictator Omar Torrijos sign a treaty agreeing to transfer control of the Panama Canal from the United States to Panama at the end of the 20th century."

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/panama-to-control-canal

Carter gave the Panama Canal away. Not one of his brightest moves.
 
"Jimmy Carter and Panamanian dictator Omar Torrijos sign a treaty agreeing to transfer control of the Panama Canal from the United States to Panama at the end of the 20th century."

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/panama-to-control-canal

Carter gave the Panama Canal away. Not one of his brightest moves.

That we no longer had the moral power to hang onto it should have been a sign that America was headed for deep trouble.

The people who ran and run America never figured it out.

They aint that bright.
 
"Jimmy Carter and Panamanian dictator Omar Torrijos sign a treaty agreeing to transfer control of the Panama Canal from the United States to Panama at the end of the 20th century."

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/panama-to-control-canal

Carter gave the Panama Canal away. Not one of his brightest moves.

Speaking of common sense to which either you lack or lack the ability to realize all of the facts instead of those you choose to run with:

The U.S. recognized the Republic of Panama's sovereignty at reversing colonization hold on the Panama Canal. This as a result the Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty allowed the U.S. to build the Panama Canal and provided for perpetual control of a zone five miles wide on either side of the canal. Although the French had attempted construction of a canal in the 1880s, the Panama Canal was successfully built from 1904 to 1914. Yet on November 6, the United States recognized the Republic of Panama, and on November 18 the Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty was signed with Panama, granting the United States exclusive and permanent possession of the Panama Canal Zone. You owe President Carter an apology for your zealous and ridiculous accusations.

https://www.history.com/this-day-in...vember 6, the United,of the Panama Canal Zone.
 
Speaking of common sense to which either you lack or lack the ability to realize all of the facts instead of those you choose to run with:

The U.S. recognized the Republic of Panama's sovereignty at reversing colonization hold on the Panama Canal. This as a result the Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty allowed the U.S. to build the Panama Canal and provided for perpetual control of a zone five miles wide on either side of the canal. Although the French had attempted construction of a canal in the 1880s, the Panama Canal was successfully built from 1904 to 1914. Yet on November 6, the United States recognized the Republic of Panama, and on November 18 the Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty was signed with Panama, granting the United States exclusive and permanent possession of the Panama Canal Zone. You owe President Carter an apology for your zealous and ridiculous accusations.

https://www.history.com/this-day-in...vember 6, the United,of the Panama Canal Zone.

So Carter didn't transfer control of the Panama Canal over to Panama?
 
So Carter didn't transfer control of the Panama Canal over to Panama?

Not exactly as a order of President H.W. Bush. Yet the Panama Canal is administered by Panamanians with thus far peaceful relations with U.S. trade routes, etc. To clarify accusations against President Carter's intent in relation with the Panama Canal Zone and the subsequent efforts to ensure this area if accessible to U.S. trade, etc.:

The Carter administration revisited many of these issues with Congress when it negotiated the implementation legislation for the Torrijos-Carter Treaties. Carter signed the implementation legislation into law on September 27, 1979.

The Torrijos-Carter Treaties allowed the United States to defend itself from charges of imperialism made by Soviet-aligned states. While the treaties represented a great moment of cooperation between the United States and Panama, relations between the two countries grew contentious after the death of Torrijos in 1981. In December of 1989, President George H.W. Bush ordered an invasion of Panama to remove Panamanian leader Manuel Noreiga from power. By 1999, however, relations had grown more peaceful and the Canal was turned over to the Panamanians who have administered it ever since.

https://history.state.gov/milestone...nt Jimmy Carter's,control of the Panama Canal.
 
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Not exactly as a order of President H.W. Bush. Yet the Panama Canal is administered by Panamanians with thus far peaceful relations with U.S. trade routes, etc.

he second, called The Panama Canal Treaty, stated that the Panama Canal Zone would cease to exist on October 1, 1979, and the Canal itself would be turned over to the Panamanians on December 31, 1999. These two treaties were signed on September 7, 1977.

It took more than six months before the Senate voted. Many Senators who opposed the treaties tried to add amendments that would make it harder for other Senators to vote in favor of them. In the end, the Carter administration succeeded—but just barely. The Senate ratified the Neutrality Treaty on March 16, 1978 by a vote of 68 to 32. On April 18, they ratified The Panama Canal Treaty by an identical margin. The Carter administration revisited many of these issues with Congress when it negotiated the implementation legislation for the Torrijos-Carter Treaties. Carter signed the implementation legislation into law on September 27, 1979.

The Torrijos-Carter Treaties allowed the United States to defend itself from charges of imperialism made by Soviet-aligned states. While the treaties represented a great moment of cooperation between the United States and Panama, relations between the two countries grew contentious after the death of Torrijos in 1981. In December of 1989, President George H.W. Bush ordered an invasion of Panama to remove Panamanian leader Manuel Noreiga from power. By 1999, however, relations had grown more peaceful and the Canal was turned over to the Panamanians who have administered it ever since."

https://history.state.gov/milestone...nt Jimmy Carter's,control of the Panama Canal.

Huh??
 
Well relocate to Russia and canal your way to Siberia and who cares. Consider these facts versus your misconstrued trolling analysis:
stupid fuck.. you need to be permabanned for being brain dead,
I EVEN GAVE A MAP of the alternative route to Suez is the Northern route.'
NOTHING TO DO WHATSOEVER with Panama

what are all the dummies around here Dems?
 
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