Lee Paul Tae-Woo, Song Zhaoyu
Maritime Logistics and Free Trade Islands Research Center, Ocean College, Zhejiang University, China.
Transp Res E Logist Transp Rev. 2023 Apr;172:103082. doi: 10.1016/j.tre.2023.103082. Epub 2023 Feb 27.
Since the outbreak of COVID-19, its impacts have been envisaged in multi-dimensional ways, including global supply chains, international logistics, and transportation. Owing to a series of virus variants since 2020, several Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) projects have been halted along the Belt and Road (B&R), and their implementation progress has been affected. In addition, China, which initiated the BRI in 2013, has been facing challenges which are caused by its economic, socio-demographic, and international political structural changes. Moreover, growing conflicts and tensions in international trade and politics, such as the war between Russia and Ukraine, China-US trade conflicts, foreign companies' reshoring the production lines from China, and diplomatic disputes between China and Australia, have been interwoven with the impacts of COVID-19 on the supply chains, international trade, and transportation in the world. Having considered the above, this study explores a new research-driven approach to reignite the BRI momentum in the transitional period towards the post-COVID-19 era from a Chinese economic perspective. In doing so, this paper proposes nine research agendas, such as the optimization network of transportation and logistics distribution centers (LDCs) along the B&R, priority development and performance of LDCs, greening the B&R with green shipping corridors, revisiting port devolution continuum, humanitarian logistics in association with COVID-19, security and risk analysis of China's energy supply chains, and export of the 6th Generation Ports (6GP) model with smart ports to major container ports along the port supply chains. Each research agenda is addressed with its motivation, significance, and applicable and representative methods.
自新冠疫情爆发以来，其影响已在多个维度得到预见，包括全球供应链、国际物流和运输。由于2020年以来出现了一系列病毒变种，“一带一路”倡议（BRI）的多个项目在“一带一路”沿线被迫停工，其实施进度受到影响。此外，2013年发起“一带一路”倡议的中国，一直面临着由其经济、社会人口和国际政治结构变化所引发的挑战。此外，国际贸易和政治中日益加剧的冲突与紧张局势，如俄乌战争、中美贸易冲突、外国企业将生产线从中国回迁以及中澳外交争端等，与新冠疫情对全球供应链、国际贸易和运输的影响相互交织。考虑到上述情况，本研究从中国经济视角探索一种新的以研究为驱动的方法，以在向新冠疫情后时代过渡的时期重新激发“一带一路”倡议的活力。为此，本文提出了九个研究议程，例如优化“一带一路”沿线的运输和物流配送中心（LDC）网络、LDC的优先发展与绩效、通过绿色航运走廊实现“一带一路”绿色化、重新审视港口下放连续体、与新冠疫情相关的人道主义物流、中国能源供应链的安全与风险分析，以及将具有智能港口的第六代港口（6GP）模式出口到港口供应链沿线的主要集装箱港口。每个研究议程都阐述了其动机、意义以及适用的代表性方法。
