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Chinese President Xi Jinping unveiled the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) in 2013, intends to promote traffic connectivity and regional economic cooperation by reviving the ancient Silk Road. Under this background, this paper aims to give an overview about the impacts of the BRI on international logistics network, through identifying crucial influencing factors and analyzing the relationships between the BRI and these factors. The analytical study shows the BRI influences international logistics network by both qualitative and quantitative factors in a comprehensive way. The BRI-induced challenges and opportunities also indicate the future research possibilities about international logistics network design/redesign.
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Ye, J., Haasis, HD. (2018). Impacts of the BRI on International Logistics Network. In: Freitag, M., Kotzab, H., Pannek, J. (eds) Dynamics in Logistics. LDIC 2018. Lecture Notes in Logistics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-74225-0_34
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