Arctic Shipping Boon A Myth

Claims of a “cold rush” in Arctic shipping are unfounded with climate change unlikely to attract commercial traffic, experts have told an Ottawa conference. Authorities said insurance costs remain so prohibitive the North will remain largely untraveled despite forecasts of ice-free passage in summer: “All we have done is talk about it”.

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