Energy sanctions on Russia have helped Moscow sail a crude oil tanker east through the Arctic Circle towards China for the second time ever, a route dubbed the “Arctic Silk Road” that could one day revolutionize energy trade flows from Russia to Asia because it about half the time against Russia’s Baltic ports through the Suez Canal.
Ship tracking data compiled by Bloomberg shows the Vasily Dinkov, a specialized ice-breaking tanker operating from Murmansk, a city in…
