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Strategic locations for global logistics distribution centres along the Belt and RoadCategory

Strategic locations for global logistics distribution centres along the Belt and Road

January 4th, 2022 Category, Containers, Featured, PortStudies, Thematic Area

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Container terminal automation: revealing distinctive terminal characteristics and operating parameters
Container terminal automation: revealing distinctive terminal characteristics and operating parameters

Since the inception of China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) in 2013, the associated infrastructure and transport and economic corridor developments have been widely addressed in the research field of transportation, logistics and supply chain management. Such developments open windows of opportunity for accommodating trade flows in new or upgraded intermediate hub nodes and gateway locations along the BRI corridors.

In the latest port study, PortEconomics member Theo Notteboom joins Paul Tae-Woo Lee, Zhi-Hua Hu, and Sangjeong Lee, and Xuehao Feng, to propose strategic locations for global logistics distribution centres (LDCs) along the Belt and Road from the viewpoint of China, considering regional economic and trade blocks, maritime transport routes, China’s overseas port developments, China Railway Express services, trade conflicts between China and US, and deteriorated mobility of resources and human power caused by COVID-19.

The study presents a set of strategic locations for establishing LDCs by analyzing qualitative and quantitative facility location factors supported by the findings in the existing literature.

Eight locations for global LDCs are identified in the Sub- Saharan region, Sri Lanka, the Middle East, Northern Oceania, Southern Europe, Northern Europe, and key dry hub port locations in Minsk, Belarus and Northeast Asia along the Silk Road Economic Belt. Furthermore, we present a research agenda with applicable methods.

You can read the authors’ version of the study via PortEconomics:

Lee, PTW, ZH Hu, S Lee, X Feng, T Notteboom (2022) Strategic locations for global logistics distribution centres along the Belt and Road: Explorative analysis and research agenda, Transport Policy.

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