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Plenary Session
Far East to Europe Corridor and Port Hierarchy
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Date: 10 May 2016
Time: 11:15 am - 12:30 pm
Venue: Silverbox Ballroom, Hotel ICON |
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This session consists of two parts. The discussant is Professor Anming Zhang. The aim of the first part of the plenary session is to examine the Far East to Europe corridor, which will be conducted by Professor Harilaos
N. Psaraftis. The purpose of his paper is to address the various issues related to the Far East to Europe corridor. The presentation is extracted from the contents of an EU project called SuperGreen on the concept of green corridors. Among the nine corridors that were analyzed in the SuperGreen project is the so-called “Silk Way” corridor that links the Far East to Europe. Two types of transport modes, maritime and rail, are widely used in the corridor. The results from the SuperGreen project are presented, with focus on corridor benchmarking, and the issue of a possible modal shift from the maritime to rail due to slow steaming in the maritime leg will be addressed.
In the second part, the impacts of the OBOR policy on the hierarchy in the European port system will be explored and presented by Professors Theo Notteboom and Zhongzhen Yang. Their study aims to explore the impacts of the OBOR policy on the hierarchy in the European container port system and European port-hinterland dynamics. They will discuss the potential structural shifts that the OBOR policy might bring about to the trade flow between China and Europe and its impact on the geographical distribution of the containerized flows between China and Europe. Their study also includes an analysis that uses a node-based approach to map current and planned investments of the interests of the Chinese in European ports (e.g. COSCO, SIPG, and China Merchants).
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Professor Anming Zhang
The University of British Columbia |
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