China, Among Many Others, is Setting Sail for the Arctic | Record Shipments of Containers and LNG

China Sails Into the Arctic August 6, 2025 In this episode, Sal Mercogliano — a maritime historian at Campbell University (@campbelledu) and former merchant mariner — discusses the surge of Chinese shipping into the Arctic and how the region is being developed by the Russians as a major route for containers, LNG, and oil. #arctic #russia #china #shipping #lng #oil #containership #container Support What's Going on With Shipping via: Patreon: www.patreon.com/wgowshipping Twitter: @mercoglianos Bluesky: @mercoglianos.bsky.social Facebook: @wgowshipping Email: [email protected] Marine Traffic www.marinetraffic.com Chinese Companies Dispatch Multiple Container Ships Along Arctic Route For Faster Europe Trade https://gcaptain.com/chinese-companie... Chinese Captain in Baltic Sea Cable Damage Case Appears in Hong Kong Court https://gcaptain.com/chinese-captain-... First Panamax Containership Sprints Across Arctic Reaching China In Just Three Weeks https://gcaptain.com/first-panamax-co... Russia Sets New Arctic Shipping Record, Transports 38Mt in 2024 via Northern Sea Route https://gcaptain.com/russia-sets-new-... Chinese Icebreaker ‘Xue Long 2’ Operating North of Alaska, Two More En Route to Arctic https://gcaptain.com/chinese-icebreak... U.S. Coast Guard Icebreaker ‘Healy’ Heads To Arctic for Multi-Month Deployment https://gcaptain.com/u-s-coast-guard-... U.S. Coast Guard Responds to Chinese Icebreaker ‘Xue Long 2’ on American Continental Shelf off Alaska https://gcaptain.com/u-s-coast-guard-... Bollinger Teams Up With Global Powerhouses to Fast-Track Icebreaker Production for U.S. Coast Guard https://gcaptain.com/bollinger-joins-... Russia Shipped Record 22 Million Tonnes of LNG Through Arctic in 2024 https://gcaptain.com/russia-shipped-r... Gas Carrier Dashes Across Arctic Ocean in Just 10 Days Delivering Russian LNG to Asia https://gcaptain.com/gas-carrier-dash... Arctic Shipping’s Black Carbon Crisis Demands Immediate Action, New Report Says https://gcaptain.com/arctic-shippings...