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More ships are traveling longer distances in Canada’s Northwest Passage

The number of vessels sailing the passage's Arctic waters grew by 44 percent from 2013 to 2019 and total distance more than doubled, a new PAME report found.

By Yereth Rosen May 3, 2021
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The once-impenetrable Northwest Passage through Arctic Canada’s marine waters has now become a site of routine vessel transits and growing traffic.

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