After 2035, without further investment, there is the risk of a drop in Russian cargo traffic along the route Arctic. This was stated today by the governor of the region of Murmansk, Andrei Chibis, during a meeting with the president Russia, Vladimir Putin, focused on the development of the Arctic and the Transarctic transport corridor. Remembering that they were made record investments in the region amounting to 35 trillion Rubles, Chibis explained that the projects supported by these investments ensure traffic growth until 2035, while with some fluctuations, while after this date the exhaustion of the projects and fields currently under development will risk to cause a decrease in traffic, since the flow of goods in transit, given the high costs of the sea route Arctic and icebreaker navigation assistance - ha specified the governor of Murmansk - sufficient to ensure its growth.

Chibis pointed out that today the Arctic region represents up to 10% of Russia's gross domestic product compared to 2% of the total population living there. In addition, he stressed that the Arctic Sea Route is a priority for the geopolitical security also in view of its resources and why, in addition to being shorter than the route through the Suez Canal, is, above all, entirely under Russian jurisdiction.

During the meeting, Putin and Chibis also spoke on the serious problem of waste and pollution in the Arctic region and the consequent damage to the health of the local population.

Meanwhile, in the first ten months of 2025, Russian ports handled a total of 732.6 million tons of goods, with a decrease of -1.5% on the same period last year. In ports of call in the Arctic region, traffic was 73.3 million tons, with a decrease of -5.3%. To Exception of cargo volumes handled by Russian ports of the Far East, which amounted to 207.1 million tonnes (+5.1%), traffic volumes also decreased handled by the ports of the Baltic basin (226.6 million tons, -0.9%), those of the Sea of Azov-Black Sea (219.1 million of tons, -6.1%) and the ports of the Caspian Sea basin (6.5 million tons, -14.6%).

The total export traffic from Russian ports is amounted to 574.7 million tonnes (-2.1%), while the exports to 34.1 million tonnes (-3.1%), the 62.1 million tonnes (+13.2%) and traffic of cabotage to 61.9 million tons (-7.7%).