Northern Sea Route Carried Less Cargo Last Year Than Previous Year And Far Less Than Moscow Had Projected – OpEd

The volume of cargo carried via the Northern Sea Route in 2025 was 870,000 tons less than a year earlier and stood at 37 million tons, less than half the figure that Moscow had projected for either year only four years ago and experts saying there is little likelihood that things will improve in 2026.

That is the conclusion of research by the Gekon Consulting Center which like all observers of the NSR faces increasing difficulty in coming up with numbers because Moscow has shuttered...