PERSPECTIVES OF DEVELOPMENT OF THE NORTHERN SEA TRANSPORT CORRIDOR
Creation of the Northern Sea Transport Corridor is one of the key conditions for development of the Arctic regions of Russia and their national safety provision. The Northern Sea Route (NSR) plays the leading role here. We have considered the transit and transport potentials of the NSR. The NSR main development goal is to increase the transportation capacity to 50-80 million tons of cargo per year. This volume of traffic can be achieved taking into account the development of gas and oil deposits in the Arctic and on the Yamal Peninsula. The experts believes that the NSR has a good transit potential for cargo transportation from the Pacific Rim countries to Europe, though to organize this transportation at the present moment is not possible. Present economy and logistics work on the southern transport flows. The future NSR infrastructure and services development as well as transit cost savings will probably help to attract foreign partners. It should be admitted that now the NSR can't compete with the south transit route.