Head of Yakutia: emergency rescue centers should be placed along the Northern Sea Route

Emergency rescue centers should be placed along the Northern Sea Route in order to improve its safety, one of them is planned to create in the Yakut village of Tiksi, where the northernmost port of Russia is located, the head of Yakutia Aisen Nikolaev said in an interview with TASS.

"The role of Yakutia in terms of safety of the Northern Sea Route is very important, because at such a great distance (the total length of the sea coastline exceeds 4.5 thousand kilometers - note TASS) must be located emergency and rescue centers. <...> And the more global is the work of the Northern Sea Route, the more important is the presence of serious rescue centers, including the territory of the Republic. In particular such a center should be established in Tiksi. All decisions have already been taken", - said Nikolaev.

The head of the region specified that Yakutia will also continue to work on the creation of infrastructure of the port of Tiksi and the Zelenomyssk river port. "Depending on the appearance of the cargo base, a deep-water port may appear near Tiksi, near the village of Naiba. There are calculations of this issue. This is an expensive project, which is possible if the cargo base is several tens of millions of tons," - he said. According to Nikolayev, at the moment the equipment of Tiksi port is 90% worn out.

The Northern Sea Route (NSR) - the main maritime communication in the Russian Arctic. It runs along the northern shores of Russia along the seas of the Arctic Ocean. The NSR connects Russian European and Far Eastern ports and the mouths of navigable Siberian rivers into a single transportation system. The length of the route is 5.6 thousand km from the Kara Strait to the Provideniya Bay. There are more than 50 ports on the NSR route.


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