Highlights that the route is available to shipping for only a few ice-free weeks during the summer season and that apart from climate factors, shipowners encounter challenges in polar shipping such as polar darkness, poor charts, lack of infrastructure and navigation control systems and low search-and-rescue capability;
poudarja, da je plovba po tej poti mogoča le nekaj tednov v poletni sezoni, ko ni ledu, in da lastniki plovil v polarnem ladijskem prometu poleg podnebnih dejavnikov srečujejo tudi izzive, kot so polarna tema, slabi zemljevidi, pomanjkanje infrastrukture in nadzornih navigacijskih sistemov ter omejene možnosti za iskanje in reševanje;