Russia’s Northern Sea Route Workaround Supplying Asian Buyers
Asia-bound Russian crude and fuel supplies are being rerouted as the US-Israeli war on Iran and disruptions in the straits of Hormuz and Bab al-Mandab choke off traditional crude flows from the Persian Gulf. Indeed, Russia increased oil and LNG shipments via the Northern Sea Route (NSR) and utilized
Source: OilPrice.com
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DW NOTE
Russia is routing Arctic oil shipments to Asia while Hormuz sits closed for the eighth month. The Northern Sea Route is ice-free enough to matter and sanction-proof enough to scale. This isn't a workaround — it's infrastructure that outlasts ceasefires.