The chinese strategies in the Mediterranean sea: the “Belt and Road Initiative” project

Positionnement stratégique de la Chine en Méditerranée: le projet “Belt and Road Initiative”

Jérôme Verny, Ouail Oulmakki and Thierry Blayac
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Jérôme Verny: NEOMA - Neoma Business School
Ouail Oulmakki: NEOMA - Neoma Business School

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Abstract: The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) project identify the Mediterranean as a strategic area for new maritime networks in the 21st century. This paper highlights current maritime strategies in the Mediterranean as well as their impact on the spatial configuration of logistics networks on the Asia-Europe maritime route. The results suggest that the position of China in the Mediterranean is reinforced because Beijing coordinates several operations in ports infrastructure. Our analysis shows that the flow of containers in a sample of ports located on the Asia-Europe maritime route is increasing as well as the Logistics Shipping Connectivity. To explore this issue, we focus on the port of Pierus considering the Chinese investments since 2008. The results suggest that ports connectivity is increasingly significant in the port located nearby the maritime route with an interest for Beijing.

Keywords: Routes de la Soie; Méditerranée; Chine; Belt and Road Initiative; Stratégies maritimes (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019-12-31
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Published in Les Cahiers Scientifiques du Transport / Scientific Papers in Transportation, 2019, 75 | 2019, pp.63-79. ⟨10.46298/cst.12182⟩

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DOI: 10.46298/cst.12182

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