Abstract
Extant literature dealing with operative and economic aspects of container shipping in the Northern Sea Route (NSR) has concentrated on the analysis of a particular vessel type. Table 1 demonstrates that this type corresponds to a small, ice-classed container ship such as the COSCO Yong Sheng, whose voyage from Dalian to Rotterdam in August, 2013, constituted one of the first known container shipping operations by way of the NSR.
This chapter partially draws on material and texts first published in the second author’s Master’s thesis at the University of St. Gallen (Switzerland).
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Keupp, M., Schöb, R. (2015). The potential of container vessel operation on the Northern Sea Route: Nautical, regulatory, and operative issues. In: Keupp, M. (eds) The Northern Sea Route. Springer Gabler, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-04081-9_4
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