Le transport ferroviaire conteneurisé entre Chine et Europe. Un projet phare de la BRI face à la pandémie de Covid-19 et à la guerre en Ukraine

Julien Thorez, Sébastien Colin and Ivan Savchuk

Revue d'études comparatives Est-Ouest, 2023, vol. N° 1-2, issue 1, 165-205

Abstract: After the launching of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), the development of container rail transportation spurred trade between China and Europe. This emblematic project for developing New Silk Roads has recently encountered two ?external? shocks: the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 and the invasion of Ukraine by the Russian army in 2022. What is the impact of these shocks? Adopting an approach via the geography of transportation, this analysis highlights the contrary effects of these events on transcontinental traffic, which increased during the pandemic and has fallen off since the start of the war. Light is shed on the shift towards Asia of the activities of China Railway Express.

Keywords: Belt and Road Initiative (BRI); New Silk Road; corridors; rail transportation; containers; transit corridords; sanctions; pandemic; war; China Railway Express; Russia; China; Kazakhstan; Ukraine (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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