For an entire week, the giant container ship Ever Given blocked one of the most important waterways in world trade between the East and West: the Suez Canal. This incident not only caused a serious disruption along the transport route, where about 400 ships backed up due to the accident, but also caused serious financial losses to many, which could amount to hundreds of billions of dollars due to the downtime experienced by more than one hundred ships, and the fact that several routes for the transport of goods between Europe and Asia were blocked. - The Globist News
All this prompted some countries to start talking about looking for alternatives to the Suez Canal, and many transportation companies that carry goods between Europe and Asia have already begun to seriously review some of them. Objectively, one of the most interesting options is the route that lies through Russia: This means either the Northern Sea Route (NSR) or the Russian Trans-Siberian Railway. Much has already been said about the prospects held by the NSR: the polar ice is rapidly melting, vast bodies of water are swiftly becoming freed up, and the distance between Europe and Asia is significantly shrinking.
