Northern Sea Route Development Concept

The issues of the development of the Northern Sea Route are extremely topical at the present time. Moreover, the active development of digital technologies has accelerated the pace of digitalization of logistics in general and sea freight in particular. In this study, a concept for the development of the NSR is proposed, based on the results of the expedition “Digital ship of the Northern Sea Transit Corridor.” Among the proposed steps, much attention is paid to the creation of infrastructure, namely digital platforms, the concept and requirements for a digital ship system, digital modeling of the project, the integration of all these systems with each other using cloud technologies, big data, etc. In addition, the paper considers the advantages of the NSR, the importance of logistics in the Arctic zone, as well as the role of logistics in the development of the country’s economy.