Climate Change And Aging Fleet Cripple Russia's Water Transport

Via the Jamestown Foundation   Russia, more than any other advanced country, has long depended on its rivers and canals to move people and cargo within the country and abroad. But a combination of climate change, the increased use of water by people living along these waterways and siltation have lowered water levels to critically shallow depths (Samaraonline24.ru, July 13). Russian naval yards have failed to produce new river ships and barges since Soviet times, in addition to scrapping 30 percent of these aging vessels over the past decade…