The PanStar Acro container ship left the South Korean port of Busan last week, headed on a 45-day round-trip voyage to Europe. But in a break from past journeys, the ship sailed north, hugging Russia’s Arctic coast.
泛星阿克罗号(PanStar Acro)集装箱船上周驶离韩国釜山港，开启了为期45天往返欧洲的航程。但与以往不同的是，这一次它是向北，紧贴着俄罗斯北极海岸航行。
The voyage, which will take the PanStar Acro to Felixstowe, Rotterdam and Gdańsk, is a first South Korean commercial test of the Northern Sea Route (NSR), an Arctic shipping highway that governments, shipping lines and exporters hope will connect Asian manufacturers to European markets and reshape global trade as polar ice melts.
泛星阿克罗号在这次航行中将途径费利克斯托、鹿特丹和格但斯克，这是韩国对北海航线(NSR)的首次商业测试。这条北极航道承载着各国政府、航运公司和出口商的希望，他们期盼随着北极冰层融化，该航道能将亚洲制造商与欧洲市场连接起来，重塑全球贸易格局。
Seoul says the NSR could cut sailing time to Europe by about 10 days compared with the Suez Canal, reducing fuel and other operating costs in an industry in which every day at sea counts.
首尔方面表示，与经过苏伊士运河的航线相比，北海航线可将前往欧洲的航行时间缩短约10天，从而降低燃料和其他运营成本。对航运业而言，航行天数每增加一天，都意味着成本要增加不少。