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This paper, elaborated by China Cosco Shipping, describes the major achievements of the Belt & Road Initiative (BRI). In particular, the article focus on the role played by the Mediterrenean region as a destination and a transit hub for the BRI.

This paper is available only in the English version.

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The paper highlights the role of China in maritime traffics and logistics of the Widened Med Countries. The Mediterranean Basin, in fact, is becoming increasingly strategic for the Asian giant, as evidently showed by the analysis of the investment plans of China in the Med Area. More in general, the Asian giant plans to establish a new “Silk Road”, both maritime and on rail, with the objective of promoting its role in global trade, of integrating more the Euro-Asian markets and of finding new openings for its productions. The impact that this great project is going to have on the port system and the logistics of the Mediterranean and Italy is going to be massive: it is going to inevitably favour those Countries that are able to offer high port efficiency and cutting edge logistics; this represents an important challenge for Italy.

This paper is extracted from the SRM’s 6th Annual Report on “Economic relations between Italy and the Mediterranean area – November 2016″.

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