there is literally no one living along the entire route. The sea is shallow, the weather is horrible, the ice comes on fast, and you can wait for weeks to months for rescue. I think Panama is safe.
No matter how many weather scientists and researchers state there is no climate/weather crisis on earth ,the talking heads keep repeating the political lie of climate change and its doomsday ending.
People do live there but they don't live all over the place and it's beautiful there, the weather is good but not all the time, like pretty well anywhere
The Panama Canal problem was not caused by drought. The canal was widened. Engineers told them they needed more water reservoirs, but they were never built.
Cheaper to simply pump water from Panamanian lower locks _back up_ to the upland locks (rather than letting the water run out to the sea). Still expensive, but cheaper and easier to implement than an arctic passage.
Well that should be done anyway in order to save sweet water from being lost in the ocean. However, both Panama and Suez are very prone to sabotage/blocking which could seriously upset the entire world economy. The northern sea routes are therfore a good backup and a viable economic alternative to both.
Highly sceptical about this. I don’t believe the NW Passage is ever going to be navigable or become a trade route. Been talked about for centuries. Fascinating to see that Sir John Franklin’s ships the Erebus and Terror have recently been located though.
Canada is not golng to allow shipping A free passage through sovern with out paying to maintain the route, CANADA considers it internal waterway not a international free passage
This is going to be a tricky situation over the next decades. The seasonal freeze/thaw is making this route feasible for a couple months but because of the flowing ice, there's no guaranteed accessibility. This passage and the Northern Sea Route are unique because while, according to international law, you're allowed to sail through a country's EEZ, I don't think international law says anything about being allowed to break ice in another country's EEZ. Canada does need to massively invest in the NWP in any case. At least Russia already has a population and extensive infrastructure along the NSR
The Panama Canal has not experienced anything close to a long-term drought. If you look at the rainfall charts from 1901 to 1922, you will find this to be true. The problem is that 52 million gallons of reservoir water is used per ship. This equal to 160 acre-feet. With 15,000 ships per year, this equals 2.4 million acre-feet of water used every year. Now, add about 200,000 acre-feet for the population's use = 2.6 million acre-feet/yr. Gatun Lake, the man-made reservoir built for the canal, only holds 4.2 million acre-feet at full capacity. This means there is only 19 months of water supply at full capacity. Now, take into account that the months of January thru March historically produce nearly no rain, a 'drought' of only one rainy season is a big deal. This math is well known to the operators and government. It is simply easier to blame 'climate change'.
@@seanworkman431 The water 'pump back', (conservation measures) equals 7% per passage, at best. It is no different than the plastics recycling truck that pulls up after the garbage truck - only to haul the recycling to the same landfill.
The Canadian route will NOT be free of Fees. Be clear on this. Canada will be expected to provide safety of passage and emergency care and that will come at significant cost which shippers will bear.
after completing the northwest passage crossing f the Manhattan tanker Imperial oil who chartered the ship during a press conference said never again uses it. The crossing is to difficult it and was not worth the risk Currently the Northwest passage is used by small cargo ships to transit mine concentrate mined in the Nanuvit territory very few small cruise ship transit through the straight
The USSR built a fleet of nuclear powered ice breakers in the 1960's which were huge cargo ships as well. These cargo ships have been using the Artic route from St Petersburg to Vladivostok since then, now under Russian control. They operated more than 6 months of the year even before climate change was a factor. Furthermore, China is already working with Nicaragua to cut a new canal north of the present Panama Canal, although this narrator seems Clueless about it. Long story short, this narrator is Full Of $hit and doesn't know what he's talking about. 😮
@@joekulik999the Nicaragua canal is more a trucking exercise to clear the mountains that run the spine of the country. Ships would get a ways into the country, unload onto trucks and other ships would load and continue ur the trip. I have to assume this would take more ships and huge yards on each end of the land transit. Not as convenient as the Panama Canal.
I worked on an oil tanker, we delivered a ship load of fuel to Polaris mine on Cornwallis island, on that route. It was the end of September. We ran into a storm the spray was blowing over the bridge, with chunks of ice bouncing all over. This route will never be safe, as much of the ice is glacial. Sea level rise will make Panama and Suez all saltwater.
The sea level tide mark on the old fort in Sydney harbour has not changed for a lot longer than i've been alive. ( 75 years ) When it starts to rise, gimme a shout cobber.
What about the new canal Mexico is planning to build north of the Panama Canal? If Mexico actually builds that new canal, how much with that effect the Northwest Passage?
We have been drilling off shore and producing for more then 60 years in Canada And we have never ever had a major spill and you cannot have one if you follow the proper procedures which we do.
@@jimpawa5793 CEO of BP overruled the engineer on the rig in the Gulf who was going to stop drilling and replace the malfunctioning blowout preventer which is the proper procedure and it never happened which is why the blow out occurred if proper procedures are fallowed every where Like we do in the offshore in Canada including the wells already drill along the northwest passage you don't have blow outs or oil spills and we have never had one in Canada in the more then 60 years we have been drilling off shore or the more then 100 years we have used tankers not even one.
@@SirManflyI worked in Northern Alaska for many years and the ice doesn’t open up enough for shipping till the middle of August and closes in by the end of October.
The northern route along the trans-Siberia is more viable than Canadians in term of cargo movement. Commercial voyage has started already. Canada had better acquire the nuke powered submarines to defend the polar sea.
This has been an on-again/off-again issue for 50 years and it just isn't feasible. Maybe it will work for the Summer months, but it certainly is not workable for the Winter period. That route is brutal in Winter. Massive ice-sheets and nowhere to re-provision/refuel/provide rescue services. I've been through the Northwest passage in Summer and our biggest issue was icebergs, massive ones. I just don't see that a Northwest passage is tenable because it's seasonal and that doesn't work for global ocean traffic.
The Canada people should decide what to do with the North West passage. They have Islands surrounding the route. It would profit the Canadian’s economy. It would be such a good gain for Canada if this large amounts of ice would melt. Hopefully the animals can adapt up in the North.
I remember watching ' An Inconvenient Truth ' when it first came out and Al Gore was saying all this CERTAIN stuff about this passage being open permanently, bla, bla, bla never happened and then YEARSSSS later Clarkson and his two mates on Top Gear LITERALLY drove to the magnetic north pole in Toyotas and there was ZERO!!! chance of them falling through the very thick solid ice.
People have been selling the mythical Northwest Passage for five hundred years. It's almost hallious hearing it sold in modern times when we have maps and should really know better.
The Arctic isn't at threat of becoming ice-free in the Summer. Its not going to happen. Just the typical seasonal melting which will always leave enough ice to f things up.
Arctic is Ice free pretty much every year that same as in the 1970s The first time I was there which way the wind is blowing determined if the Ice is on our side or the Russian side.
No, the northwest passage will not replace the Panama Canal or the Suez Canal. It is interesting to note that these water passages are in entirely different parts of the planet. Moreover, the northwest passage will remain a partially open, seasonally variable route that is remote both from other sea lanes and destinations. There are problems arising from the reality that it's in Canadian Territory, not simply an exclusion zone. The "suffering" has been accompanied with huge profits for shippers. I can recommend relocating the Houthi to the windswept steppes of northern Canada to oversee the infrequent traffic. I'm sure bedouins adapt readily to frigid climes.
You DO realize that the Arctic polar region is as insane as the Antarctic during winter? You may as well import penguins. Small wonder that global shipping has its transit solution closer to the equator than the poles. You may as well theorize that the weather around the capes is bound to become balmy and shipping quite pleasant.
Why would ships need ports and terminals on the Arctic Ocean? And what exactly are “support services”? Are we talking about navigation aids? Yes, those are definitely needed, but who would pay for it? Rescue services? Another critical necessity, but who pays? Ice breakers? In very short supply and very expensive to build and operate. And then there are the ecological effects and costs of increased traffic, increased ice breaking and the inevitable disasters. Plus, Russia and China are attempting to assert complete ownership and control of the Arctic. Routing commercial cargo ships through the Arctic would be VERY RISKY BUSINESS!
@@peterbee129 Ok, but then there must be some kind of port or dock in place, that handles their needs. There is absolutely no need to build huge ports for Supermax container ships, as suggested in this video.
Not being dependent on the Chinese Operated and Controlled Panama Canal is a good thing. Not to mention depriving the CCP a major source of income. US lose of control of the Panama Canal is another major Democrat fuck up. Thanks Barrock
Any large scale investments that can only be used seasonally are unlikely to be profitable - unless the bulk of those investments are born by governments who value side benefits more.
At long last, the fabled Northwest Passage may become reality, but at a ridiculously higher cost than the projected new canal in Mexico. Roughly EIGHT TIMES the cost. I don't think so.
Not being dependent on the Chinese Operated and Controlled Panama Canal is a good thing. Not to mention depriving the CCP a major source of income. US lose of control of the Panama Canal is another major Democrat fuck up. Thanks Barrack.
✅️👍 your video on Northern Artic (Canadian) passage. Yes! It's common sense... but.... needed ice breaking..&/or thawing/melting technology for year round (?) utilization. Nuclear 'mini-blasting' for break-up & extreme heat melting services would be needed. Hope advanced technology can make this North Canadian Artic route an economic reality. A+ on your video ✅️👍💪😊
The western passage, through the Canadian straits, is forever frozen and nothing indicates that it might change. The eastern passage has been in use in summer for nearly a century, but it's controlled by Russia and this will not change either.
I dont think they have to worry about piracy! Canada is hardly likely to allow piracy the way Somalia does! And its nowhere near the Houthis and other unstable groups in the middle east, thats a big reason for it looking so attractive. Im also puzzled as to why they need to build ports? This is a sea route to get from East to West and vice versa, why build harbours way up there?
This would mean more Canadian ice breakers which Canada has refused build. Not building any for decades. Even ones that were planed. While Russia builds more and more nuke powered breakers.
"That will end the Panama canal ?" How? When ? The last I checked, the Northwest Passage won't be clear of sea ice _year-round_ until 2100. Ice breaker fleet in Russia is barely sufficient, let alone the anemic non nuclear fleet in North America ? Rescue and emergency response in the area gives economic advantage to other routes in winter Overhype based on ignorance of the real logistics is getting very old.
At first I thought this is a spoof vid. Then I thought innovative. Then I considered the actual conditions (MAYBE a 2 month window, if that at all), geography (Bering Sea and North Sea, 2 of the worst water masses of the world), political concerns (I don't recall hearing anything about Russia), the upgrading of every ship that would like to go (add 6 feet of steel to the front, back, bottom, and sides to withstand ice), emergency conditions (crew rescues, oil spills, stranded ships, etc.), and definitely decided this is not a viable idea.
Disagree. The Arctic route will supplement the Suez and Panama Canal routes. More trade will flow. It is stupid sanctions and trade wars that stifle trade.
Let's just hope that our world continues getting warmer so that we can enjoy the many blessings we receive from this warming including increased navigation and arable lands in cold areas!
Such nonsense. You're more likely to die in some Mad Max like wasteland if that happens. It won't be properly arable for millennia, and meanwhile the arable areas we already rely on for food will be dead.
only in theory to pass through canadian territory which is frozen for many months. then the environmentalists pop up and protest. Sea freights are extremely heavy and if the passage there is shallow waters, then nothing moves at canadian waters. Why not consult the Chinese engineers who may help to devise a workable method for the decreasing water level.
No, it won't!!! For international seaways to be claimed they have to traditional seaways, The Canadian Arctic is NOT a traditional seaway. Plus to be a traditional seaway you must have search and rescue bases along the seaway. The Canadian Arctic has NONE!!! And it would be super expensive for Canada to accomplish this. There is no way Canada will allow this to happen!!!
The video is noting the decline of the Panama Canal due to climate change then promoting the benefits of climate change for the Northwest passage. Encompassing global warming?
Don’t forget Baffin Island and Antarctic Ocean are starting to melt supposeibly raising ocean levels significantly! I suggest to wait for now!🙏🤷♂️👻🧌🦅👻🗣️🫀🫁🧠🙏🤷♂️🙏🙏🙏👮🙏🤷♂️
Canada will eventully have nuclear powered subs to patrol this passage, as looking ahead the other canals are doomed to fail. Tolls will be set on costs of keeping it ice free.
Wouldn't it be easier and less expensive to pump ocean water into the Panama Canal locks to raise the lock level each time a ship passes instead of using lake water in the Panama Canal? As all these experts say, the sea level is rising due to climate change. The more seawater, the easier it will be to get ocean water. When the lock opens, drain it back out on the slat waterside, not the lakeside. Once the so-called sea rises, like the "experts" say no locks will be needed anyway, it may be a million years, but we have to be ready right 😜
Not true, they have a new Finnish designed “Sako” military rifle. And they are good shots, they practice on seals. No one should mess with them as they are Canadian Military. Also they have fast response snowmobiles.
I am so tired of these AI-voiced clickbait misinformation channels.
there is literally no one living along the entire route. The sea is shallow, the weather is horrible, the ice comes on fast, and you can wait for weeks to months for rescue. I think Panama is safe.
No matter how many weather scientists and researchers state there is no climate/weather crisis on earth ,the talking heads keep repeating the political lie of climate change and its doomsday ending.
@@alby4548 get this book, keep it under your pillow, maybe you'll learn something. Environmental Science for Dummies
by Alecia M. Spooner
People do live there but they don't live all over the place and it's beautiful there, the weather is good but not all the time, like pretty well anywhere
Not an international seaway. Canadian territorial waters. To those who disagree- would they be happy with a ruSSian nuke carrying sub sitting there?
@@alby4548maybe the talking heads are focused on the >80% of published climate scientists who believe in human caused climate change?
The Panama Canal problem was not caused by drought. The canal was widened. Engineers told them they needed more water reservoirs, but they were never built.
Cheaper to simply pump water from Panamanian lower locks _back up_ to the upland locks (rather than letting the water run out to the sea). Still expensive, but cheaper and easier to implement than an arctic passage.
The new locks recycle 90% of the water already. The lake level is too low. Improving efficiency doesn't make more water.
Well that should be done anyway in order to save sweet water from being lost in the ocean. However, both Panama and Suez are very prone to sabotage/blocking which could seriously upset the entire world economy. The northern sea routes are therfore a good backup and a viable economic alternative to both.
@@GreenIsland38 For Suez at least there is an option to dig one in Israel (Aqaba). For Panama, there is no alternative.
@@cratecruncher4974that would take a dedicated nuclear plant and a lot of time.
Yea that is good one. America should make more their own products👍
We will be 👌🇺🇲⚖️
Highly sceptical about this. I don’t believe the NW Passage is ever going to be navigable or become a trade route. Been talked about for centuries. Fascinating to see that Sir John Franklin’s ships the Erebus and Terror have recently been located though.
Sounds like the fabled Northwest Passage!
Al Gore was right?
Canada is not golng to allow shipping A free passage through sovern with out paying to maintain the route, CANADA considers it internal waterway not a international free passage
Canada wont be Canada by then .
Vassal states will do as they are told.
@@lassepeterson2740
I don't even know what that means but whatever you meant to say it makes no sense.
To bad Canada has a weak tit leader that no one respects
trudeau is AWFUL
This is going to be a tricky situation over the next decades. The seasonal freeze/thaw is making this route feasible for a couple months but because of the flowing ice, there's no guaranteed accessibility. This passage and the Northern Sea Route are unique because while, according to international law, you're allowed to sail through a country's EEZ, I don't think international law says anything about being allowed to break ice in another country's EEZ.
Canada does need to massively invest in the NWP in any case. At least Russia already has a population and extensive infrastructure along the NSR
The Panama Canal has not experienced anything close to a long-term drought. If you look at the rainfall charts from 1901 to 1922, you will find this to be true. The problem is that 52 million gallons of reservoir water is used per ship. This equal to 160 acre-feet. With 15,000 ships per year, this equals 2.4 million acre-feet of water used every year. Now, add about 200,000 acre-feet for the population's use = 2.6 million acre-feet/yr. Gatun Lake, the man-made reservoir built for the canal, only holds 4.2 million acre-feet at full capacity. This means there is only 19 months of water supply at full capacity.
Now, take into account that the months of January thru March historically produce nearly no rain, a 'drought' of only one rainy season is a big deal. This math is well known to the operators and government. It is simply easier to blame 'climate change'.
it was called GLOBAL WARMING until the rethuglikkkans cancelled that term.
Pumping the water back up, although expensive, is a solution that is better than letting all that fresh water flood back to sea.
@@seanworkman431 Not a realistic option, here. There is no generation of power here.
@@seanworkman431 The water 'pump back', (conservation measures) equals 7% per passage, at best. It is no different than the plastics recycling truck that pulls up after the garbage truck - only to haul the recycling to the same landfill.
Nicely done video !
Good Job !
The Canadian route will NOT be free of Fees. Be clear on this. Canada will be expected to provide safety of passage and emergency care and that will come at significant cost which shippers will bear.
after completing the northwest passage crossing f the Manhattan tanker Imperial oil who chartered the ship during a press conference said never again uses it. The crossing is to difficult it and was not worth the risk
Currently the Northwest passage is used by small cargo ships to transit mine concentrate mined in the Nanuvit territory
very few small cruise ship transit through the straight
The USSR built a fleet of nuclear powered ice breakers in the 1960's which were huge cargo ships as well. These cargo ships have been using the Artic route from St Petersburg to Vladivostok since then, now under Russian control. They operated more than 6 months of the year even before climate change was a factor.
Furthermore, China is already working with Nicaragua to cut a new canal north of the present Panama Canal, although this narrator seems Clueless about it.
Long story short, this narrator is Full Of $hit and doesn't know what he's talking about. 😮
@@joekulik999 Maritime English is used for safe operations in Maritime Industry, by Marine Professionals, are you a Maritime Professional?
@@joekulik999the Nicaragua canal is more a trucking exercise to clear the mountains that run the spine of the country. Ships would get a ways into the country, unload onto trucks and other ships would load and continue ur the trip. I have to assume this would take more ships and huge yards on each end of the land transit. Not as convenient as the Panama Canal.
“Climate” is not the same thing as “recent weather”
I worked on an oil tanker, we delivered a ship load of fuel to Polaris mine on Cornwallis island, on that route. It was the end of September. We ran into a storm the spray was blowing over the bridge, with chunks of ice bouncing all over. This route will never be safe, as much of the ice is glacial. Sea level rise will make Panama and Suez all saltwater.
The sea level tide mark on the old fort in Sydney harbour has not changed for a lot longer than i've been alive. ( 75 years ) When it starts to rise, gimme a shout cobber.
I see you say "this route will never be safe" so is the red sea safe? or long delays for Panama viable ? Northern passage is the future>.
What about the new canal Mexico is planning to build north of the Panama Canal? If Mexico actually builds that new canal, how much with that effect the Northwest Passage?
We can’t successfully respond to oil spills and groundings in our US coastal waters what will happen in the US/Canadian Arctic waters.
I'm not going to clean oil off of a polar bear with Dawn detergent. 😳
We have been drilling off shore and producing for more then 60 years in Canada And we have never ever had a major spill and you cannot have one if you follow the proper procedures which we do.
Exactly what BP was doing in the Gulf of Mexico 😂
@@jimpawa5793 CEO of BP overruled the engineer on the rig in the Gulf who was going to stop drilling and replace the malfunctioning blowout preventer which is the proper procedure and it never happened which is why the blow out occurred if proper procedures are fallowed every where Like we do in the offshore in Canada including the wells already drill along the northwest passage you don't have blow outs or oil spills and we have never had one in Canada in the more then 60 years we have been drilling off shore or the more then 100 years we have used tankers not even one.
@@jimpawa5793 we have already drilled well along the northwest passage
I'd never heard of the idea. It's interesting, perhaps not too likely yet. I love your photography and editing.
You think ice road trucking is bad , this is much worse
Canada's arctic passage would be viable in spring, summer and fall but probably not winter but what do I know?
@@SirManflya new federal agency will be created in Canada to keep shipping lanes open. It will be like the longshoreman, but with sea ice.
@@SirManflyI worked in Northern Alaska for many years and the ice doesn’t open up enough for shipping till the middle of August and closes in by the end of October.
The northern route along the trans-Siberia is more viable than Canadians in term of cargo movement. Commercial voyage has started already.
Canada had better acquire the nuke powered submarines to defend the polar sea.
N.W. passage is crazy. Build a canal across the narrows in Mexico. There are no ice bergs there and the distance of the canal would be shorter.
This has been an on-again/off-again issue for 50 years and it just isn't feasible. Maybe it will work for the Summer months, but it certainly is not workable for the Winter period. That route is brutal in Winter. Massive ice-sheets and nowhere to re-provision/refuel/provide rescue services. I've been through the Northwest passage in Summer and our biggest issue was icebergs, massive ones. I just don't see that a Northwest passage is tenable because it's seasonal and that doesn't work for global ocean traffic.
The Canada people should decide what to do with the North West passage. They have Islands surrounding the route. It would profit the Canadian’s economy. It would be such a good gain for Canada if this large amounts of ice would melt. Hopefully the animals can adapt up in the North.
one good thing about the canal options is there are no rogue waves. weather (on the whole) is not an issue.
Excellent move, better security, economically sound, go for it!!!
I remember watching ' An Inconvenient Truth ' when it first came out and Al Gore was saying all this CERTAIN stuff about this passage being open permanently, bla, bla, bla never happened and then YEARSSSS later Clarkson and his two mates on Top Gear LITERALLY drove to the magnetic north pole in Toyotas and there was ZERO!!! chance of them falling through the very thick solid ice.
Arctic route, maybe, but only during summer and spring time!
This is a nice story. However, I don’t think that this route will ever happen. It’s just too risky.
People have been selling the mythical Northwest Passage for five hundred years. It's almost hallious hearing it sold in modern times when we have maps and should really know better.
Convoys with an ice breaker in the lead could be used to transit the NW passage. Maritime cargo will follow the safest/cheapest route.
You went too far. Even the most optimist of the geopoliticians admit that the North-West passage will be open only from august to september.
Good luck with that in winter
Okay,,we need a giant tug-boat, with ice melting laser beams,loud music speakers & kitchen serving taco's,,24/7
you forgot tamales!
US & Canada need many more and newer Ice Breaker ships to assist keeping the NWP open. Weather comes on quickly across the north.
If Canada is smart it won't be free to go through Canadian waters, same for US
The Arctic isn't at threat of becoming ice-free in the Summer. Its not going to happen. Just the typical seasonal melting which will always leave enough ice to f things up.
Arctic is Ice free pretty much every year that same as in the 1970s The first time I was there which way the wind is blowing determined if the Ice is on our side or the Russian side.
If as aspected the golf stream stops... Then the Nothern half will go colder again. and the passage will be difficult.
United States need to start making its own products!
@@GenesisGarden-l9s usa is using coal .
The USA is already making its own products but in the international market, everybody buys from other countrys products as clothing, food, etc.
@@peterbee129 usa products don't last .
Thinking counter to this, if the Antarctic ice melts sufficiently, could a southern route also be viable for commercial shipping.
Ocean is open all the way around Antarctica. Problem is it's like a perpetual hurricane circling the continent.
No, the northwest passage will not replace the Panama Canal or the Suez Canal. It is interesting to note that these water passages are in entirely different parts of the planet. Moreover, the northwest passage will remain a partially open, seasonally variable route that is remote both from other sea lanes and destinations. There are problems arising from the reality that it's in Canadian Territory, not simply an exclusion zone. The "suffering" has been accompanied with huge profits for shippers. I can recommend relocating the Houthi to the windswept steppes of northern Canada to oversee the infrequent traffic. I'm sure bedouins adapt readily to frigid climes.
Childish BS !!
Both Canals are necessary for convenience or it could be alternatively utilized.
"Lack of infrastructure" is cited as a problem, but how much of it is in place across the Atlantic and Pacific oceans . . . ?
The Trans Mexican channel is mostly in place, and far shorter length than any Northwest Passage. No ice is a huge advantage for Mexican canal.
Forgetting the world trade population will rise. More shipping required. Maybe add to world trade but not shut down anything
That should be the route during the summer months. No need to wait any longer.
Route should be OPEN at least 4 to 5 months a year because of being closed by ice in the northern sea
It would take to many changes to make this idea profitable. It is not the time for it. But Maybe almost.
No to ships using polluting bunker fuel anywhere in the NW passage!
You DO realize that the Arctic polar region is as insane as the Antarctic during winter? You may as well import penguins. Small wonder that global shipping has its transit solution closer to the equator than the poles. You may as well theorize that the weather around the capes is bound to become balmy and shipping quite pleasant.
Can’t the Panama Canal change the locks so the water moves back upstream instead of being pumped out to sea as the ships transit the passage?
The Northwest Passage has been described as a rockpile. That's why ships avoid it.
Why would ships need ports and terminals on the Arctic Ocean? And what exactly are “support services”? Are we talking about navigation aids? Yes, those are definitely needed, but who would pay for it? Rescue services? Another critical necessity, but who pays? Ice breakers? In very short supply and very expensive to build and operate. And then there are the ecological effects and costs of increased traffic, increased ice breaking and the inevitable disasters. Plus, Russia and China are attempting to assert complete ownership and control of the Arctic. Routing commercial cargo ships through the Arctic would be VERY RISKY BUSINESS!
There are islands in the upper part of Canada that depend on a yearly or semi yearly shipments to their port/ area.
@@peterbee129 Ok, but then there must be some kind of port or dock in place, that handles their needs. There is absolutely no need to build huge ports for Supermax container ships, as suggested in this video.
Not being dependent on the Chinese Operated and Controlled Panama Canal is a good thing. Not to mention depriving the CCP a major source of income. US lose of control of the Panama Canal is another major Democrat fuck up.
Thanks Barrock
Maybe a bridge to Catalina island to long beach like 30 miles
Any large scale investments that can only be used seasonally are unlikely to be profitable - unless the bulk of those investments are born by governments who value side benefits more.
The new shipping route is thru Mediterranean sea,Israel,Saudi Arabia then passing the Persian Gulf.
All in range of drones and missiles?
At long last, the fabled Northwest Passage may become reality, but at a ridiculously higher cost than the projected new canal in Mexico. Roughly EIGHT TIMES the cost. I don't think so.
Not being dependent on the Chinese Operated and Controlled Panama Canal is a good thing. Not to mention depriving the CCP a major source of income. US lose of control of the Panama Canal is another major Democrat fuck up.
Thanks Barrack.
The NW passage is environmentally unsafe. The billionaire class doesn't give a' crap as long as they make their billion$.
stupid title - route when possible will only be open a few months a year
✅️👍 your video on Northern Artic (Canadian) passage. Yes! It's common sense... but.... needed ice breaking..&/or thawing/melting technology for year round (?) utilization. Nuclear 'mini-blasting' for break-up & extreme heat melting services would be needed. Hope advanced technology can make this North Canadian Artic route an economic reality. A+ on your video ✅️👍💪😊
Are the large US aircraft carriers too wide to o through the Panama or Suez canals?
I know they travel the suez but height might be the problem in Panama not sure just Google and said they could lower the antennas
The western passage, through the Canadian straits, is forever frozen and nothing indicates that it might change. The eastern passage has been in use in summer for nearly a century, but it's controlled by Russia and this will not change either.
I dont think they have to worry about piracy! Canada is hardly likely to allow piracy the way Somalia does! And its nowhere near the Houthis and other unstable groups in the middle east, thats a big reason for it looking so attractive. Im also puzzled as to why they need to build ports? This is a sea route to get from East to West and vice versa, why build harbours way up there?
How traveling on water could cost $43 billion dollars.
What if the climate turns cold again? That would end this whole Arctic passage idea.
Well, there is the ice…
There is still the same ice.
Next, please.
Yeah right! It's faster to use stargate or star trek's transporter system!
This would mean more Canadian ice breakers which Canada has refused build. Not building any for decades. Even ones that were planed. While Russia builds more and more nuke powered breakers.
Canada is building icebreakers, already in progress. Russia can go ahead and build theirs for their own needs, that's no threat to us.
I thought that also pump the water back to the first lock,why not do that.
"That will end the Panama canal ?" How? When ? The last I checked, the Northwest Passage won't be clear of sea ice _year-round_ until 2100. Ice breaker fleet in Russia is barely sufficient, let alone the anemic non nuclear fleet in North America ?
Rescue and emergency response in the area gives economic advantage to other routes in winter
Overhype based on ignorance of the real logistics is getting very old.
Who would receive the revenue from this route?
Canada and the U.S. as they have sovereignty in their respective regions. Enough with freebees for shipping companies.
At first I thought this is a spoof vid. Then I thought innovative. Then I considered the actual conditions (MAYBE a 2 month window, if that at all), geography (Bering Sea and North Sea, 2 of the worst water masses of the world), political concerns (I don't recall hearing anything about Russia), the upgrading of every ship that would like to go (add 6 feet of steel to the front, back, bottom, and sides to withstand ice), emergency conditions (crew rescues, oil spills, stranded ships, etc.), and definitely decided this is not a viable idea.
Disagree. The Arctic route will supplement the Suez and Panama Canal routes. More trade will flow. It is stupid sanctions and trade wars that stifle trade.
Need ports?? Any around Panama or Suez they need???
Bypassing the middle east would be outstanding. Don't think Eskimos are going to shoot rockets at ships.
Why would it be 48 billion? No calls. But Canada shouldn't allow it anyway
Let's just hope that our world continues getting warmer so that we can enjoy the many blessings we receive from this warming including increased navigation and arable lands in cold areas!
Such nonsense. You're more likely to die in some Mad Max like wasteland if that happens. It won't be properly arable for millennia, and meanwhile the arable areas we already rely on for food will be dead.
When you bet against the weather above the artic circle, you LOSE.
Fuel should not be changed!!! Standardize fuels will not hurt your g.d.pressious environment!!!
only in theory to pass through canadian territory which is frozen for many months. then the environmentalists pop up and protest. Sea freights are extremely heavy and if the passage there is shallow waters, then nothing moves at canadian waters.
Why not consult the Chinese engineers who may help to devise a workable method for the decreasing water level.
Cant the water from the 2 oceans either side to be used for panama
If the effects of climate change continue, you won't need to sail your ship anymore around Florida, but instead over it.
No, it won't!!! For international seaways to be claimed they have to traditional seaways, The Canadian Arctic is NOT a traditional seaway. Plus to be a traditional seaway you must have search and rescue bases along the seaway. The Canadian Arctic has NONE!!! And it would be super expensive for Canada to accomplish this. There is no way Canada will allow this to happen!!!
The video is noting the decline of the Panama Canal due to climate change then promoting the benefits of climate change for the Northwest passage. Encompassing global warming?
Don’t forget Baffin Island and Antarctic Ocean are starting to melt supposeibly raising ocean levels significantly!
I suggest to wait for now!🙏🤷♂️👻🧌🦅👻🗣️🫀🫁🧠🙏🤷♂️🙏🙏🙏👮🙏🤷♂️
Its to cold and the artic waters are always frozen most of the year
ye.s! it will be possible, but not soon though1
How does the Mexican proposal compare with all this?
Dream on....seasonal at best.
Global warming gave us the Northwest Passage, but that weather...
Eventually the NWP will be ice free, that's when it will be viable.
Canada will eventully have nuclear powered subs to patrol this passage, as looking ahead the other canals are doomed to fail. Tolls will be set on costs of keeping it ice free.
V good
Never explained the $43 B costs, very well.
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Wouldn't it be easier and less expensive to pump ocean water into the Panama Canal locks to raise the lock level each time a ship passes instead of using lake water in the Panama Canal? As all these experts say, the sea level is rising due to climate change. The more seawater, the easier it will be to get ocean water. When the lock opens, drain it back out on the slat waterside, not the lakeside. Once the so-called sea rises, like the "experts" say no locks will be needed anyway, it may be a million years, but we have to be ready right 😜
Revenue for this is over one trillion a year, and canada won't get a penny.
You think Somalian pirates are dangerous wait till you run up to a bunch of angry Inuit in kayaks armed with sealing harpoons. Not pretty.
Not true, they have a new Finnish designed “Sako” military rifle. And they are good shots, they practice on seals. No one should mess with them as they are Canadian Military. Also they have fast response snowmobiles.
What about the train in Mexico ?
U'll have to wait @-Least 25-Years before the Arctic will become 'Warm'-Enuf' before the above Dream becomes a Safe-Reality !