‘We want to see the protection of the Arctic’: MSC rules out Northern Sea Route

MSC Group has said it will not consider using the Northern Sea Route as an option to link Europe and Asia despite disruption on other options.

Bud Darr, the liner group’s executive vice president of maritime policy and government affairs, said that despite disruption in the Red Sea and the Panama Canal in recent months, the company will not consider the Arctic passage over northern Russia as an option.