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The Northern Sea Route is considered as an alternative transcontinental transport corridor.
China and the Republic of Korea have seen benefits from cooperation along the Northern Sea Route (NSR). This was stated by the head of Rosatom Alexey Likhachev on the sidelines of the BRICS summit, TASS reports.
“The People’s Republic of China and the Republic of Korea have already gotten a taste of test flights, and our Chinese partners are moving on to regular flights,” Likhachev said.
He noted that the transformation of the Northern Sea Route into a transcontinental transport corridor is impossible without BRICS partners.

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