Venta Maersk -Northern Sea Route trial passage
Venta Maersk

The first Maersk containership to complete the Polar sea passage from Asia to Europe via the North Pole – the so-called Northern Sea Route – arrived in St Petersburg this morning.

The Venta Maersk, a 3,596 teu ice-class vessel designed to operate the company’s Baltic feeder services, departed Russia’s Pacific port of Vladivostok on 22 August.

It called at Russia’s other main Pacific box port of Vostochny and the South Korean hub of Busan before transiting the Bering Strait on 6 September.

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  • Frederik deCockBuning

    September 28, 2018 at 7:41 pm

    Good to follow, interested to learn the average outside air temperature during.
    the voyage . Did Maersk monitor inside temperatures of containers ondeck ?
    will be continued.