The Canada’s geographical position on the northern sea hemisphere and its operational experience in the past to sail the arctic sea route puts it on higher bar but from last many decades, the Canada has not paid the due attention to its shipping business and trade architecture and the evidence to that is that the Canadian captains are using the way long outdated soviet era traditional maps for the operational voyages and sea lanes navigation.
In addition
to that, Canada also tried to send the boat to Baffin Bay to encourage its sea
shipping development on the exact race when Russia intend to boost and expand
its already well established shipping and northern sea lane architecture and is
heading front on its northern waters.
When
Stephen Harper had his annual visit to north for honoring the military
exercises, the arctic studies and research experts pointed on Canadian Prime
Minister to stress his observation regarding the booming up-gradation of
Russian shipping business apparatus which is being deployed with aim to grab
mineral mining and resource hauling projects in northern Russian region.
According to Michael Byres, an author of book “International Law and the
Arctic” shared that he received an email from a Greek shipping company
revealing the information on factual findings and development statistics that
Russia is actually 50 years ahead of any Arctic country in terms of seizing on
the opportunity through northern sea front.
Infrastructure Vulnerability
Cold
pursuit and salvage stays situated in southern Ontario and relies on upon
planes that were planned to have been supplanted long ago. Furthermore debate
with the United States about outskirt issues and the status of the Northwest
Passage include lawful instability and other legislative issues for shippers.
Just 61
tankers and freight boats entered the Canadian Arctic last season, a large
portion of them identified with group resupply only. Crossing the Northwest
Passage remains generally an objective for many expedition groups. Besides
that, two crews are in rowboats for the purpose.
Shippers
are paying charges, which helps settle expenses of the enhanced ocean course.
Also the busier transportation hall is now beginning to invigorate improvement
inland. Fluid characteristic gas offices on the coast are likewise slated.
"There's
a reasonable connection between the Northern Sea Route as the global payload
course and the concentrate on the monetary improvement of northern Russia,"
said Byers, who is a professor at the University of British Columbia.
John
Higginbotham, a senior fellow at the Centre for International Governance
Innovation, an independent Canadian think-tank reveals the Russian headednessas
part of the renaissance of Russia after the collapse of the Soviet Union. The
opening of the Arctic, I think, Putin sees as one of his half-dozen highest
priorities in terms of restoring Russian greatness. He says, he’s pretty
familiar with what an active strategy to use transport to drive development
looks like, and I don't see any sign of that in either the U.S.A. or Canada.
The North West
Territory is arguably the most promising economic region in the Canadian
Arctic in terms of public and private potential, scale of resources,
variety of transport routes, well-functioning territorial government and
close cooperation with neighbors, reveals the report prepared by John Higginbotham.
But lack of infrastructure and marine corridor investment continue to inhibit
development.
“At the
moment we’re far behind where we should be in respect of charting of the Arctic
Ocean, search-and-rescue, aids to navigation and other areas,” he said.
Professor
Byers of British Colombia University said, “The Russians are building their
Arctic door at this time, A 10-fold expand in shipping volumes
in excess of four years says a lot to how farsighted the Russian government has
been”.