Arctic Imperative Summit ends: Now what?

The Arctic Imperative Summit has come and gone, and the jury is out on the countless ambitious goals discussed over the past few days: just about everything was thrown out as a possibility, from a state-owned icebreaker to new international ports for a few Arctic towns to the advent of the oft-discussed natural gas pipeline. All of those goals are great, but there are concerns that the bigwigs in attendance go home, as they have before, with nothing except ideas. What's the least likely project of all to come to fruition? Capt. Stephen Carmel, senior vice president for Maersk Line, Limited, the globe's leading mover of containerized freight, says it's the Arctic 'Strait of Gibraltar', which was touted by others at the summit as an advantage of the shrinking sea ice. "It's not going to happen," Carmel said during his speech at the summit.