Shipping distance between Europe and Asia could be reduced by 4,500 nautical miles, saving a week’s time and 40 percent in freight shipping distances compared to alternative routes. Through a voluntary tariff model, user nations from the remainder of the world can be invited to share with Arctic nations the capital and operating costs necessary for safety and reliability infrastructure in the Arctic Ocean and its approaches. (6) As this new frontier emerges, the United States should assume leadership to ensure safe, secure, and reliable Arctic seaway development, and further to ensure that the Arctic becomes a place of international cooperation rather than competition or conflict. (7) Setting precedent for cooperative infrastructure investment and greater reliability in domestic and international shipping is the St. Lawrence Seaway between the United States and Canada, which links the Great Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean. The Seaway operates in internal waters, rather than international waters, but offers ship operators a coordinated suite of services, similar to what is needed in the Arctic Ocean and its approaches. (8) The St. Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation, established in 1954, is a model for a United States Government corporation that constructs, operates, and maintains sea passage infrastructure in water bodies shared with another nation. It corresponds with its Canadian counterpart, the St. Lawrence Seaway Management Corporation. In 2010 the Great Lakes-Seaway system generated— (A) 226,833 United States and Canadian jobs