The battle for the arctic begins…😳🧊

This is a huge deal. For the first time in human history, the Arctic shipping route is open. And there are two countries that have been waiting for this moment for decades. You see, today, this 35,000 ton Chinese vessel will become the first scheduled cargo ship ever to use the Arctic shipping route. And if successful, this shortcut will half the novel 40-day Sui's Canal route saving billions of dollars in ushering the world into a new era of trade. So you're probably wondering, how come we've never used this before? Two reasons, ice and Russia. And the first problem is being partly removed 10 years earlier than projected due to rising sea temperatures and melting ice. However, the Russia problem remains because all of this is disputed waters. Ah, it's gotta be a fun next few years. Russia claims it's theirs while the US and other Western countries say otherwise. But that's not a problem if your name's China. In fact, their historic voyage today was only made possible thanks to Russian nuclear-powered icebreakers as escorts. So right at a time where global shipping routes are in more chaos than ever. China and Russia are the only two countries able to use the quickest ocean route between East Asia and Northwest Europe. There are drawbacks though. It's unusable during winter, currently. And it can be very expensive and dangerous. But considering the other options are increasingly become in the same, the next few years, it's gonna be all-ice. on the yacht.