China opens new Arctic overland route for Russian crab

China announced that the first shipment of Arctic king crab transported via a new overland route through Russia and Kazakhstan was successful.The 20-metric-ton (MT) shipment traveled through the Barents Sea, Russia, and then through Kazakhstan into the northwestern region of Xinjiang, where it entered China in Jeminay County near the city of Urumqi. The trip took six days to transit through Russia and Kazakhstan before arriving at a trading center selling Chinese goods to neighboring states.A new route to the Chinese market could ...