They fear that without priority commitment to their route, the largely untapped east Siberian oil reserves will remain just that.
Law enforcement authorities began detecting large-scale shipments in the 1980's, when Colombian drug cartels, battered by aggressive law enforcement, opened new routes to that largely untapped market.
It opens up the vista of new shipping routes, the exploitation of untapped deposits of fossil fuels, commercial fishing and industrial development.
Flower constant pollinators visit only a subset of the species or morphs extant, despite the presence of alternative, untapped rewards that may be bypassed en route to the preferred resource (Waser, 1986).
The South China Sea is also one of the world's most heavily trafficked shipping routes and believed to have major untapped natural energy deposits.
The ice cover over the Arctic ocean is disappearing at a far faster clip than scientists had anticipated even a decade ago, bringing a rush of visitors and a scramble for one of the last great untapped repositories of oil and gas, faster shipping routes, and mining, fishing, and tourism opportunities that will overwhelm local communities and infrastructure.
Europe remains its pre-eminent market, but its businessmen have plied Ottoman trade routes with a sense of unabashed optimism at untapped markets.
As global warming makes new routes viable though the Northwest Passage, the competition for untapped natural resources means that military presence in the Arctic is on the rise.
The islands have untapped offshore oil and gas reserves, and these waters are a vital trade route for goods being shipped around the world.
One example is the employee of a wildlife conservation organisation who, when mobilised to serve on a frigate off Iraq, helped to produce a programme for BBC Radio 4 on migratory bird routes in the North Arabian Gulf, delivered naval messages to a previously untapped audience.
