A first Chinese container ship, the "Dubai Tower", has taken the Arctic route to Europe
This inaugural voyage, which is to be weekly, is part of the Chinese project of a "polar silk road" and avoids a Middle-East region that is increasingly unstable.
We haven't written up this one. Le Monde Economie has the full story — the link below goes straight to it.
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