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NSR crossings top all of 2025 as Suez container traffic hits post-Houthi high
CHNL data showed 104 ship crossings on Russia's Northern Sea Route by 30 September, more than in all of 2025, while Lloyd's List Intelligence reported 2.19m TEU of containership traffic through the Suez Canal last month, the highest since the Houthi campaign began.
Data from Norway's Centre for High North Logistics (CHNL), reported on 19 October, showed 104 ships had crossed Russia's Northern Sea Route by 30 September. That was already more than in all of 2025, according to the supplied report.
Four days earlier, Lloyd's List Intelligence reported that containerships moved 2.19m TEU through the Suez Canal last month, the most since the Houthi campaign began.
The supplied excerpt also mentions that Linerlytica expects carriers to take certain steps, but it does not provide the full forecast.
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