OREANDA-NEWS  After 2035, there is a serious threat of a decrease in cargo traffic along the Northern Sea Route (NSR). This was stated by Andrey Chibis, Governor of the Murmansk Region, at a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin, Kommersant reports.

He recalled that in ten years, all those projects and deposits that currently provide traffic in the Arctic Ocean will be developed. Accordingly, in order to preserve transportation, new resources should be developed, and for this it is necessary to "very actively determine" what to invest in.

Earlier it became known that in 2025, Russian oil supplies to Asia via the NSR (by now navigation in this direction has already been completed) fell by 4.2 percent, to 1.83 million tons. In general, the cargo flow of oil in the waters of the NSR in the first ten months of 2025 reached 6.8 million tons, which is one percent less than a year earlier.

The media also reported on possible problems with the supply of liquefied natural gas (LNG) from the Arctic Yamal LNG project. As of mid-November, no shipments had been transferred from Arc7 ice-class gas carriers to vessels less suitable for movement in the ice near Kildin Island near Murmansk, which jeopardizes fuel exports during the winter months.