Arctic shipping - a study on feasibility and future impact on warehousing/shipping routes/shipbuilding

• 主要作者: Wong, Suet Peng.
• 其他作者: Lum Kit Meng
• 格式: Final Year Project
• 語言: English
• 出版: 2011
• 主題: DRNTU::Engineering::Maritime studies
• 在線閱讀: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/45451

Sailing through the Arctic Ocean via the Northern Sea Route (NSR) gives a saving of around 40% on the sailing distance from East Asia (Yokohama) to Northern Europe (Hamburg) as compared to the current Suez Canal route. However, this 40% reduction in distance does not correspond to a 40% of cost savi...