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“The idea of Arctic transit shipping is that it is faster and cheaper. The reloading of cargo at both the Eastern and Western terminus will add several days to the length of a voyage and adds substantial costs, reducing the two primary incentives of shipping via the NSR. However this set-up obviously will involve some extra time used and also reloading costs.” “It might be that some cargoes can be reloaded and collected in either end and sent with such a ship. The idea to create a “container shuttle” on the route is not new and by using ice-class container vessels the shipping season can be extended, explains Arild Moe, Senior Research Fellow at the Fridtjof Nansen Institute. The plan is for the Murmansk and Kamchatka hubs to collect cargo arriving from Asia and Europe before transshipping it on ice-class container ships along the NSR. You already know the Eastern terminus is in Kamchatka,” Primorsky CPC’s director Andrei Sizov, explained. “The terminal near Murmansk will become the western anchor point of the Arctic part of the Asian-European container line, which we are starting to build. Primorsky CPC now revealed further details explaining that it will also build a container terminal on the Kola Peninsula. The accord envisions the construction of a container terminal near Leningrad and another on the Kamchatka Peninsula, to be completed by 20 respectively. The Kamchatka Development Corporation (KRKK) and Primorsky Universal Handling Company (Primorsky CPC) signed an initial agreement d uring the International Arctic Forum in April in Saint Petersburg on April 9th. Similar to Novatek’s approach of building transshipment hubs on the Kamchatka and Kola Peninsulas, Primorsky announced plans for large container terminals along the eastern and western terminus of the NSR. Now a Russian company, Primorsky CPC, aims to bring container shipping to the route and take advantage of the shorter distance between Europe and Asia. The transport of natural gas and oil along the Northern Sea Route (NSR) has seen rapid growth with cargo volume quadrupling between 2015-2018 to nearly 20 million tons.