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Strategic Trade Routes

Inside this issue

• Operators have ambitious plans to use the line for Asia-Europe cargo

• Reviving the ancient Silk Road will involve six new road-rail corridors

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Seeking new ways to deliver the goods

Robert Wright on the challenges and opportunities created by surging volumes of trade

New milestones on the old Silk Road

Until container ships are replaced by direct oil pipelines, or equivalents, there will always be a role for shipping routes, writes guest columnist Dominic Barton

Central Asia: $19bn plan provides new threads for Silk Road

Raphael Minder on aims to revive an old trade route with six road and rail corridors

Trans-Siberian Railway: Reality yet to match vision

Miriam Elder on ambitious plans to put cargo on track

Air freight from China: Clouds on the horizon

Jamil Anderlini on worrying signs in the so-called Silk Road in the Sky from China

China: Logistics is key to inland shift

Geoff Dyer looks at transport issues in the more deprived regions

Malaysia and Singapore: Rising tide lifts port neighbours

John Burton on the impact of prosperity on the peninsula

India: Hubs are nub of the issue

Joe Leahy on the choices facing shippers delivering containers to overloaded ports

Betuwe Route: After two decades, freight link receives green light

Robert Wright on the complicated birth of a 160km rail project linking Rotterdam with Germany

APM Terminals: Ports provider races, as shipping line plods

Robert Wright on the changing relationship between two Maersk sister companies


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