Russia has ambitions to be the leader in Arctic shipping:
http://en.portnews.ru/digest/21126/
Novatek, a private company with western and Chinese interests, will finance the next generation of icebreakers for the NSR:
http://en.portnews.ru/news/280414/
While Rosatom is looking at building 30 nuclear powered container ships to be used on the NSR:
http://en.portnews.ru/news/279777/