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Alexey Likhachev, the CEO of Russia’s Rosatom, has forecast a record cargo transit of forty million tonnes along the Northern Sea Route in 2026, an increase of about 10% above 2025 figures. Rosatom is responsible for managing the route and provides nuclear-powered icebreakers to assist with the transit.
Likhachev said that “our Northern Sea Route shipping forecast for 2026 is a record forty million tonnes. Since 1 January, Rosatom has operated as a unified maritime manager for northern deliveries. This year, we will deliver cargo to three Russian regions—Chukotka, Yakutia, and Khabarovsk. In February and March this year, our nuclear icebreaker Sibir operated in the Gulf of Finland near Primorsk Port, which handles around sixty million tonnes of oil and petroleum products annually.”
Likhachev said that Sibir helped export over 8 million tonnes of oil from Primorsk, escorting 165 large-tonnage vessels. At the end of 2025, shipments along the Northern Sea Route exceeded thirty-seven million tonnes.
The Hong Kong-owned shipping company Sealegend has also just confirmed a record number of transits between China and Europe by using the NSR from August to October this year.
