the Suez-canal route is worth the troubles of a 6-week summer season,
the need for an ice-breaker escort, and battling Russian red tape.
Arctic Shortcut Beckons Shippers as Ice Thaws
Two German ships are poised to complete, for the first time, a
commercial shipment transit from Asia to Europe over the waters of the
Arctic north of Russia.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/11/science/earth/11passage.html
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