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Freighter sails through Northwest Passage from Canada to Europe

2013-09-27 14:06:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Reuters: A large sea freighter completed a voyage through the hazardous Arctic Northwest Passage for the first time on Friday as global warming opens routes that mariners have wanted for centuries. The 75,000 deadweight-ton Nordic Orion, built in 2011, left the Canadian Pacific port of Vancouver in early September with a cargo of coking coal and is scheduled to arrive in the Finnish port of Pori on October 7, according to AIS shipping data. "The Northwest Passage is more than 1,000 nautical miles shorter...

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