14 DAY TRIAL // Towards the beginning of this year's March, scientists warned that, courtesy of global warming and climate change, ships would soon be able to sail across the North Pole. It turns out that their predictions were fairly accurate.
Ecogeek tells us that, this year, a Chinese cargo ship weighing close to 19,000 tons is to travel to Amsterdam via the Arctic.
More precisely, it will leave home, head north and travel across Russia's northern coast, the same source details.
If the Arctic had held as much ice as it did some years ago, the cargo ship would have had to take an entirely different route.
Thus, it would have had to journey across the Indian Ocean and reach the Mediterranean Sea through the Suez Canal.
By the looks of it, the route through the Arctic is 7,000 kilometers (4,350 miles) shorter. Hence the fact that the ship will reach its destination some 12 – 15 days earlier.