By Elina Ganatra and Julian Lee (Bloomberg) Russia sent its second shipment of crude oil east through the Arctic Circle to China, a route that could one day give the country a faster route to buyers in Asia.
That Vasily Dinkov, a specialized ice-breaking tanker, is sailing along the North Sea Route after loading crude oil from a storage tanker moored in Murmansk late last month, ship tracking data compiled by Bloomberg shows. The ship, carrying a relatively small cargo, crossed…