First Arctic Cargo Shipped Through Canada NW Passage

MV Nunavik which belongs to Fednav, a Canadian-owned company and world leader in Arctic navigation, announced that MV Nunavik sailed from Deception Bay en route to China via Canada’s Northwest Passage, with a full cargo of nickel concentrate. MV Nunavik will be one of the first commercial vessels to transit the Northwest Passage completely, and the first to do so unescorted with an Arctic cargo, and with Canadian expertise. 
MV Nunavik is the most powerful conventional (non-nuclear) icebreaking bulk carrier in the world, and sails from Deception Bay, Northern Quebec year round, transporting product from the Canadian Royalties mine. The Nunavik will deliver 23,000 tons of nickel concentrate to Bayuquan in China.
MV Nunavik will be supported by a shore-based team of ice navigation specialists from Fednav and its subsidiary, Enfotec.
Route to China via the Northwest Passage is some 40 percent shorter than the traditional Panama Canal route.
First independent commercial voyage through the Northwest Passage.