Xi, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, has stressed improving the country's capacity for engaging in international communication to present a true, multi-dimensional and panoramic view of China. Shipping company COSCO directly and indirectly also owns stakes in most of the 15 Arc7 tankers built for the Yamal LNG.Chinese President Xi Jinping said China needs "to develop a voice in international discourse that matches China's comprehensive national strength and international status," as Chinese top leaders had a group study session on strengthening China's capacity for international communication on Monday, with experts saying China will not keep silent amid a stigmatization and propaganda warfare launched by the US and its allies, and China has the confidence to shape a more "reliable, admirable and respectable image." However, the yard has reportedly decided to halt cooperation with the Russian project developers following the attack on Ukraine.
The topside modules for gravity structures to be applied in the Arctic LNG 2 were originally to be manufactured at Chinese yards. In the Arctic LNG 2 project, the companies CNPC and CNOOC both own 10 percent stakes. The CNPC and the Silk Road Fund own 20 percent and 9,9 percent respectively of the Yamal LNG. Most of them work for companies involved in regional oil, gas and coal projects, among them Novatek’s Arctic LNG 2, Rosneft’s Vostok Oil, the Syradasaysky coal project in Taymyr, as well as Gazprom’s offshore well drilling.Ĭhinese companies are directly and indirectly involved in several of the projects, and first of all in the LNG projects. “I believe China looks at the Northern Sea Route as a back-up option, as one of several silk roads that can be applied in case of conflicts on the southern routes,” the expert says.Īccording to the Northern Sea Route Administration, there were on the 19th of August more than 80 ships on the route. Grigoriev, who has worked with issues of Russian Arctic transportation and natural resources for more than two decades, says the Chinese for a long time carefully have studied the Northern Sea Route. “The feeling among international shippers and traders is that everything that goes through Russia now is like acid,” he says. In a recent interview with Russian journal Korabel, Russian Arctic expert Mikhail Grigoriev says international shipping companies now carefully steer clear of Russia. With the exception of LNG carriers that shuttle to natural gas terminal Sabetta, they are all Russian. While practically all of the world’s biggest shipping companies have cut ties with Russia following its war against Ukraine, the Chinese company continues to operate in Russia.Īs of 22nd of August, the managing body that is run by Russia’s state nuclear company Rosatom has granted sailing permission to a total of 869 vessels.
The absence comes despite COSCO’s continued cooperation with Russia. Several of them have carried big industrial modules and components, like wind turbines, to Western Europe and Scandinavia.īut this year, the Chinese appear to shun the north Russian waters. Over the past years, the Chinese shipping company has sent a number of ships across the Arctic route. Judging from data from the Russian Northern Sea Route Administration, COSCO has not applied for sailing permission for a single of its vessels. Ice maps show open water across the lion’s share of the more than 5000 km long route that connects the Pacific with European Russia.īut the vanishing sea-ice notwithstanding, there will this year hardly be any foreign ships sailing the Northern Sea Route.Ībsence despite continued cooperation with Russia The far northern shipping route that stretches along Russia’s Arctic coast is almost ice-free and shipping in the area will soon reach this year’s peak.
(Atle Staalesen/The Independent Barents Observer)įor the first time in several years, China’s state shipping company COSCO is not not sailing on the Northern Sea Route. China’s biggest shipping company COSCO sends container carrier from Shanghai.
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