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The human trafficking that was stopped by theSuez blockagedepends on transit through tropical waters. For those businesses the Arctic route is useless. Only containers that can withstand freezing can go via Russia.
And the little Ice Age means that the route capacity will be strictly limited to the capacity of Russia'snuclear icebreakerfleet.
No green goods can go that route because the crazies will consider them tainted by use of nuclear power to get them through.
It will definitely happen but there are other One Belt alternatives on the horizon. New container ships crossing Vietnam via the mightyMekong riverwhere a new rail system will haul containers to Bangladesh and then across India to west coast ports like Mumbai. As relations between India and Pakistan improve the container rail will branch through Pakistan to Iran and its southern and northern ports.