Impacts of the Belt and Road Initiative in the Indian subcontinent under future port development scenarios

Ruan, Xinzhong; Bandara, Yapa Mahinda; Lee, Jun-Yeop; Lee, Paul Tae–Woo; Chhetri, Prem

doi:10.1080/03088839.2019.1594425

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“…Infrastructure, especially railway connections as well as maritime routes, constitute another salient topic addressed in this Special Issue. In this way, this collection aligns itself with the debate and most recent developments in the field [14][15][16]. New modes of collaboration, including 'economic corridors', is also hinted to in this collection, thus echoing the case of Pakistan and BRI [17,18].…”

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Belt and Road Initiative (BRI): New Forms of International and Cross-Industry Collaboration for Sustainable Growth and Development

2019

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Building on the tradition, promises, and advances brought by the historical Silk Road, the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), launched by the Chinese government in 2013, has a profound impact on international business and the established forms of international collaboration. Exploiting the advantages of liberalization of trade in goods, services, capital, and public procurement, BRI will benefit the Chinese economy. At the same time, it will prompt substantial changes in the field of international business, e.g., by means of fostering business to business (B2B) and peer to peer (P2P) collaboration. It will also influence patterns of Outward Foreign Direct Investment (OFDI). Geography plays a role in BRI; geopolitics is also in the cards. Given the profound implications BRI is likely to generate in the fields of businesses, economy, society, and politics, it is imperative to frame and streamline the discussion to identify the key mechanisms and causal relationships that it induces. This is precisely what this Special Issue sought to do.

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Section: Overview Of the Special Issuementioning

confidence: 61%

Belt and Road Initiative (BRI): New Forms of International and Cross-Industry Collaboration for Sustainable Growth and Development

2019

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“…Major findings of the field visits are highlighted in Section 9 in the light of regional connectivity in South Asia, China, and Myanmar. Ruan et al (2019) brought a scenario analysis in their port development research that was applied in this study to identify one maritime load centre of the MSR under the BRI to cover maximum hinterland in South Asia (Bangladesh, Seven Sister States (SSS) of India, Nepal, and Bhutan) and Southeast Asia (China and Myanmar). The scenario method is useful when research falls into data scarcity and non-quantifiable decision variables to enable forecasting of future business environments, as well as searching for key drivers in the research arena.…”

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“…Significantly, Ruan et al (2019) found that India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, and Bhutan offer competitive advantages, due to their locations in South Asia, for having a historic maritime trade link with China. In terms of the strategic position in the Bay of Bengal, Bangladesh has a high degree of centrality to cover spatial and river connectivity to cover South Asia and Southeast Asia.…”

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“…Kavirathna et al (2018) describes the hub and spoke network, which has the advantages of mainline and feeder services for operating by an integrated manner of network configuration and ensuring proper transportation of cargos and containers between the origin and destination ports. Ruan et al (2019) stated that ports are a capital-intensive multimodal facility that require substantial investment on infrastructural development to connect them with rail, road, and even pipeline links to improve the efficient handling of all types of cargo as an integrated part of the global supply chain and port logistic network.…”

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The role of Chittagong port to support MSR in providing maritime transport facilities through intermodal in Asia

Saha

2020

Marit. Technol. Res.

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Among the seaports in the Bay of Bengal, Chittagong port is in a lucrative position to cover the maximum spatial transportation in Asia. Probably, China-proposed Maritime Silk Road (MSR) under the banner of Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) had overlooked Chittagong port as maritime load centre in the South Asian region due to geopolitical issue. A recent performance of Chittagong port in terms of container throughput and considering the hinterland potentiality by MSR, Chittagong port is visualized load centre or connector in the region attractively. The intermodal freight transportation system brought the new dimension in the port regionalization. Driven in particular, Chittagong port’s geographical position and performance are two important indicators in serving through the intermodal system to the region timely and economically. The main objective of port development in Bangladesh is to act as maritime load centre of MSR and offer port services not only for Bangladesh but also to provide maritime transport facilities as well as seaport access to the landlocked countries Nepal and Bhutan, naturally locked part of India, southwest part of China and neighbouring country Myanmar for regional development. In addition to the literature review, this research used a qualitative research method with the combination of primary and secondary data collected from the field. Moreover, one network model is designed on how Chittagong port will provide the hinterland services to the region and implement the dictum of MSR and BRI. Overall, this paper aims to investigate the potentiality of Chittagong port to serve as a regional maritime load centre of MSR for developing an integrated intermodal freight transportation system in Asia.

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“…The failed experience of the ports of Sri Lanka was considered by Ruan et al [2019]. They demonstrated that major Indian ports have increased cargo turnover and number of vessel calls.…”

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Are Eastern Baltic Ports the drivers of Eurasian trade?

Efimova

Vroblevskaya

2019

International Journal of Management and Economics

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Since “Belt and Road initiative” (BRI) has been launched, the major volume of academic studies focus on the consideration of Eurasian land and maritime transport routes. Experts on Chinese foreign policy and geopolitical strategy emphasize possible positive and negative aspects of the initiative for the states involved. The business and political circles from Eastern Baltic Sea region are looking for possible ways to attract cargo to its ports. Yet, the possible transformations of Chinese foreign trade flows in the context of BRI are now under academic consideration. We focus on the evaluation of ports’ possibilities to handle Chinese cargo. The key issues of our study include the choice of cargo transportation routes and opportunities to attract Chinese investment to expand port and logistics infrastructure. The methodology of the research is based on statistical data analysis for the further comparison of transport routes. Our empirical results demonstrate that Eastern Baltic Sea ports can attract little part of Chinese trade flows.

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Impacts of the Belt and Road Initiative in the Indian subcontinent under future port development scenarios

Cited by 30 publications

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Belt and Road Initiative (BRI): New Forms of International and Cross-Industry Collaboration for Sustainable Growth and Development

Belt and Road Initiative (BRI): New Forms of International and Cross-Industry Collaboration for Sustainable Growth and Development

The role of Chittagong port to support MSR in providing maritime transport facilities through intermodal in Asia

Are Eastern Baltic Ports the drivers of Eurasian trade?

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