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Volume of cargo shipped along Northern Sea Route rises 3.5% to around 24 million tonnes in 9M 2021
MOSCOW. Oct 5 (Interfax) – The volume of cargo shipped along the Northern Sea Route (NSR) rose 3.5% year-on-year to 24.224 million tonnes in January-September 2021, Russia’s Federal Agency for Maritime and River Transport (Rosmorrechflot) said in a press release.
"In the first nine months of the year, 24.224 million tonnes of cargo were shipped along the NSR, an increase of 3.5% year-on-year, including transit traffic totaling 1.377 million tonnes, which was more than double growth," Rosmorrechflot said, citing data of the NSR Administration federal state budgetary institution.
The data note that LNG and gas condensate accounted for 60% of the total amount of cargo shipped.
Since the beginning of 2021, the NSR Administration has issued shipping permits to 1,052 vessels, an increase of 15.3% year-on-year, including to 144 vessels under foreign flags, a decline of two vessels against 9M 2020.
The icebreaker fleet did not operate in the waters of the NSR in September.
Rosatom state atomic energy corporation expects that 35 million tonnes is to be shipped along the NSR in 2021. At the beginning of the year, Atomflot federal state unitary enterprise, a structure of Rosatom, expected that the volume of cargo shipped along the NSR in 2021 would be approximately at the level of the previous year. Cargo shipped along the NSR in 2020 totaled 32.9 million tonnes.
