A Chinese shipping company is launching a new container shipping service via the Arctic that will significantly reduce transit times between Asia and Europe.
The 18-day Arctic Express route, scheduled to commence in September, will connect three major Chinese ports with four key destinations in Western Europe, according to High North News .
The route, launched by Haijie Shipping Co, will start from Qingdao, Shanghai and Ningbo in China and stop at the ports of Felixstowe in the United Kingdom, Rotterdam in the Netherlands, Hamburg in Germany and Gdansk in Poland.