SHANGHAI: China is looking to exploit the Northwest Passage, the fabled short-cut from the Pacific to the Atlantic, state-run media said Wednesday, with the world’s biggest trader in goods publishing a shipping guide to the route.

The seaway north of Canada, which could offer a quicker journey from China to the US East Coast than via the Panama Canal or Cape Horn, was sought by European explorers for centuries, including by the doomed Franklin expedition of 1845.

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