In 2013 Chinese government unveiled one of the biggest transport plan schemes worldwide: the One Belt One Road (OBOR …) strategy, now called the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). This scheme includes the development of a group of specific transport … and Northern Europe through new port investments (e.g. Piraeus, the proposed Venice container offshore terminal) and …

produce traffic. A data panel including 27 port authorities over a period of nine years was used. The results show that for … traffic of this kind the lower the shipping costs, the higher the level of container and Ro-Ro traffic, the higher the road … haulage costs and the greater the dry port capacity the more attractive a port becomes …