ANALYSIS: Africa should prepare for a new Arctic shipping era
Part of a new seasonal container service between China and northern Europe, this shorter route – dubbed the Ice Silk Road – has advantages over the Suez Canal and Cape Route, with implications for Africa.
Global warming and rising sea surface temperatures are making the Northern Sea Route (NSR) connecting Asia with Europe via the Arctic increasingly commercially viable.
The Strait of Malacca and Gulf of Aden bordering northern Somalia have long been associated with piracy and armed robbery at sea, heightening insecurity along the traditional Asia-Europe shipping route.
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