Another arm of Chinas Maritime Silk Road, this time through the Balkans: China and three Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries on Wednesday agreed to build a land-sea express passage linking a Greek port and the landlocked Hungary to speed up transportation between China and Europe. The consensus was reached when Chinese Premier Li Keqiang met with his counterparts from Serbia, Hungary and Macedonia one day after the leaders meeting between China and 16 CEE countries in Belgrade. Li said the land-sea express route will be an extension and upgraded version of the planned Hungary-Serbia railway running through Belgrade and Budapest to connect China. It will link the Greek sea port of Piraeus in the south and Budapest in the north, stringing the Macedonian capital of Skopje and Belgrade, he said. Could this route be the future path of a South Stream 2.0 branching off from Turk Stream (provided, of course, that Greece either leaves the EU to build it or reaches some kind of accommodation with prohibitive EU legislation)? english.cntv.cn/2014/12/18/VIDE1418858404952328.shtml
Posted on: Fri, 26 Dec 2014 07:55:53 +0000
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