In the cold wind of Moscow, a China-Russia logistics summit is quietly triggering a revolutionary wave in Arctic shipping. NewNew Shipping Line of China made a high-profile announcement at the meeting: The Arctic shipping route will usher in the "super capacity era" in 2025, and five China-made ice-breaking container ships have entered the countdown for construction. This polar fleet, which is about to be launched, will extend the navigation window of the Arctic Golden Passage from four months to six months, completely shattering the icy shackles of Siberia.

Last summer, Singapore Airlines left a Chinese mark on the Arctic route with a capacity of over 20,000 TEUs on 13 voyages. While traditional shipping giants were still struggling in the Red Sea crisis, this Chinese fleet had quietly opened up the "Polar Express Line" from Shanghai to Arkhangelsk, Russia, causing the container throughput of this Arctic port to increase tenfold. But behind the glory lies danger - its "New New Polar Bear" vessel was accused of dragging and damaging the Baltic gas pipeline with its anchor chain, which has sparked international controversy.

Facing doubts, Xin Xin Shipping has revealed its trump card: the Arctic route has achieved profitability in 2024. Behind this lies precise cost calculation - the Arctic route saves 18 days compared to the Suez Canal, reduces the cost of a single container of fuel by 35%, and is still more cost-effective than traditional routes even if it departs due to ice conditions. What's even more ruthless is that they are secretly building five "ice-class monsters" at a shipyard in Shanghai: equipped with an ice-breaking hull, low-temperature steel, and three-fuel engines, capable of cutting through waves at a speed of 15 knots in the -30℃ ice sea.

Under the ice in the Arctic, another covert battle is brewing. EZ Safetrans Logistics, which sent the first Panamax container ship deep into the Arctic hinterland last year, has not announced its plan for 2025 so far. On the list of license applications from the Russian Northern Sea Shipping Authority, the names of traditional giants such as Maersk and CMA CGM are faintly visible - this once shipping desert is now becoming the new holy grail of global trade.

When the CEO of Xinxin Shipping presented the blueprint for the Arctic route to be operational in June at the Moscow Summit, the European shipping representatives in the audience were clear that the ultimate goal of this route was not Arkhangelsk, but Saint Petersburg, which directly reached the heart of Europe. Once the Chinese fleet regularizes the Arctic shipping routes, the century-old hub status of Rotterdam and Hamburg will suffer a demotion blow. As an anonymous analyst put it, "Every additional Chinese container on the Arctic shipping route is a heavy blow to the traditional maritime shipping order."

Source: JCtrans Jesse Circle

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