China has published a shipping guidebook that announces its plans to ship cargo across Canada’s Northwest Passage, the Globe and Mail reports.
“It should send a signal to Ottawa that more and more ships are coming, that serious countries and serious companies see the Northwest Passage as a viable route – or a route that will become viable in the next decade or two,” commented Michael Byers, UBC’s Arctic expert and a Canada Research Chair in global politics and international law.
A similar article appeared on MSN.
