The Northern Sea Route: Introduction and Overview; Overview; Conclusion: The threat of substitutability; References; Arctic security, sovereignty, and rights of utilization: Implications for the Northern Sea Route; Military capabilities and conflict potential in the Arctic; Arctic governance, sovereignty, and rights of economic utilization; Implications for the general framework of the Northern Sea Route; References; International Legal Dimensions of the Northern Sea Route; The applicable international legal regime; Soviet/Russian practice
confrontation and regulation

The relevance of legally nonbinding rulesConclusion; References; The potential of container vessel operation on the Northern Sea Route: Nautical, regulatory, and operative issues; Nautical issues; Regulatory issues; Considerations for the NSR's future container shipping potential; References; Through the Northern Sea Route by Stena Polaris: A logbook; Day 1; Day 2; Day 3; Day 4; Day 5; Day 6; Day 7; Day 8; Day 9; Day 10; Day 11; Day 12; Day 13; Day 14; Day 15; Day 16; Day 17; Day 18; Day 19; Day 20; Day 21; Day 22; Day 23; Day 24; Day 25; Day 26; Day 27; Day 28

The capacity potential of the Northern Sea Route by 2050Methods; Transport volume vs. capacity potential: Factors of ocean route choice; The capacity potential of the NSR by 2050; Reassessment from a 2015 viewpoint; References; The Northern Sea Route as an alternative container shipping route: A hypothetical question or a future growth path?; Traffic volume and operative aspects; A model for estimating the slot cost of an NSR transit; Conclusion; References; Go west: The insignificance of eastbound shipping for Russia's extractive industry; Commodities in the Russian Arctic

Logistics and shipping infrastructure for seaborne commodity exportImplications for eastbound traffic and transport volume on the NSR; New traffic induced by current oil and gas drilling projects in the Russian Arctic; Conclusion; References; About the authors