158. Sustainable and optimal transport corridors from China (Asia) to Europe reflecting geopolitical tensions in the region
Invited abstract in session TC-18: Developing green and sustainable communities (EWG-ORD Workshop 1), stream OR for Development and Developing Countries.
Tuesday, 12:30-14:00Room: 42 (building: 116)
Authors (first author is the speaker)
| 1. | Nahid Jafari
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| School of Business, SUNY Farmingdale |
Abstract
Building resilient and sustainable supply chains of goods and energy between Europe and Asia is a key challenge because of long distance, political risks, economic sanctions, environmental impacts, weather conditions, geoeconomics, and etc. In spite of existing routes passing Russia (the Norther Corridor) or Iran (the Silk Road), the European Union (EU) and Turkiye are more interested in initiating a new route in the middle of the two, bypassing Russia and Iran, is so-called the Middle corridor. In the Middle corridor, Azerbaijan, located at the intersection of the North–South and East–West transport routes, is recognized as an important transport and logistics hub. Meanwhile, the establishment of the Zangezur corridor by ending the conflict of Armenia-Azerbaijan may enhance diversifying energy supplies to Europe and beneficial for the global trading. The aim of this study is conducting a route optimization (intelligent, agility, cost-effective) followed by a data-driven analysis of influential factors and explore the various instruments of geoeconomic competition, then design a sustainable supply chains network.
Keywords
- Supply Chain Management
- Decision Analysis
- Developing Countries
Status: accepted
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