Opening of the northwest passage : the impact and possibilities

• المؤلف الرئيسي: Sim, Chee Leong.
• مؤلفون آخرون: Lum Kit Meng
• التنسيق: Final Year Project
• اللغة: English
• منشور في: 2012
• الموضوعات: DRNTU::Engineering::Maritime studies::Maritime management and business
• الوصول للمادة أونلاين: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/49207
• المؤسسة: Nanyang Technological University

Rising world temperature has made the Northwest Passage (NWP) become ice free for the first time in year 2007. This phenomenon has started to draw the attention of many shipping circles as the NWP offers a significant distance saving between the east and the west as compared to the current Panama Ca...