Abstract
The Chinese project One Belt One Road, in Europe often referred to as the New Silk Road, triggers infrastructural investments enabling seamless transportation of goods on the Eurasian route. Since most of these goods are transported in containers, the optimal location of inland container depots, where containers wait for future repositioning after they had been emptied at the importers, is an interesting problem. In this paper conditions determining the optimal location of inland container depots in the Polish part of the NSR are analysed. They include proximity of container transhipment terminals located on the Polish stretch of the NSR, structure of highway network enabling distribution of containers by trucks to other destinations, as well as green aspects mainly referring to avoidance of city congestion caused by trucks transporting containers.
Highlights
The Chinese Initiative One Belt One Road (OBOR), referred to as the New Silk Road (NSR) embraces the development of rail (One Belt) and maritime (21st century Silk Road) transportation corridors linking Europe with China. It can be considered as an important factor triggering changes in Eurasian intermodal transportation
Some producers of computers and RTV equipment like HP and Samsung have already shifted their transportation on the Eurasian route to rail taking benefit from the shorter lead time and higher flexibility of inventory supplementation
Container depots in Poland in the frame of the NSR should serve as supporting storage places for container terminals with limited capacity
Summary
The Chinese Initiative One Belt One Road (OBOR), referred to as the New Silk Road (NSR) embraces the development of rail (One Belt) and maritime (21st century Silk Road) transportation corridors linking Europe with China. It can be considered as an important factor triggering changes in Eurasian intermodal transportation. The criteria for choosing the location of a container depot in Poland is discussed In this process, the structure of the highway network enabling distribution of containers by trucks to other destinations, as well as green aspects mainly referring to avoiding city congestion caused by trucks transporting containers are taken into consideration. Later the infrastructural situation in Poland in the light of the NSR corridor is described and a recommendation of a depot location is formulated
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