Logistics infrastructure of the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) in providing transit from China to the European Union

Authors

  • Alexander Burnasov Ural Federal University, Department of Theory and History of International Relations
  • Maria Ilyushkina Ural Federal University, Department of Theory and History of International Relations
  • Yury Kovalev Ural Federal University, Department of Theory and History of International Relations
  • Anatoly Stepanov Ural Federal University, Institute of Further Education and Vocational Training

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.24917/20801653.344.9

Keywords:

China, EU, Eurasian Economic Union, integration, logistics infrastructure

Abstract

Changes in the transport infrastructure in China, Asia and the Russian Federation go along with the main regional geo-economic trends of their development. The core of the suggested initiatives from China is the inclusion of Asian countries and Russia in the list of transit states in order to form alternative multimodal transport corridors in the direction «East-West» (China-EAEU-EU route). The present research deals with the problems of the development of logistics infrastructure in the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) with the purpose of further improvement of transit opportunities in the delivery of goods from China to the European Union. The authors of the article take into consideration that the EAEU logistics infrastructure is an established and evolvable system which is formed under the influence of globalisation processes and regionalisation of the world economy. The unified transport system of the EAEU countries formed during the Soviet period needs modernisation. Modern conditions of transportation routes in EAEU are observed on the basis of the specific examples as well as the transformation and modernisation options of a transport vector in the direction of China-EAEU-EU. The main trends in the infrastructure development in Central Asia are reflected in the regional projects of railway and automobile communications with the integrational priorities. The development of logistics infrastructure is essential for the full realisation of the transit potential inherent in the integration within the Eurasian region.

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Author Biographies

Alexander Burnasov, Ural Federal University, Department of Theory and History of International Relations

Alexander Burnasov, PhD, Deputy Head of the Department of Theory and History of International Relations, associate professor, Chair of International Relations, Ural Federal University named after the first President of Russia B.N. Yeltsin, Yekaterinburg, Russia. Research interests: development of transport logistics in the context of globalisation, international communication and international cooperation, history, economy, logistics, globalisation. Author of over 30 works in this field, including 3 monographs.

Maria Ilyushkina, Ural Federal University, Department of Theory and History of International Relations

Ilyushkina Maria, associate professor, Chair of Linguistics and Professional Communication in Foreign Languages, Ural Federal University named after the first President of Russia B.N. Yeltsin, Yekaterinburg, Russia. Research interests: cross-cultural communication, linguistics, world economy and clusters. Author of over 30 works in this field, including 2 monographs.

Yury Kovalev, Ural Federal University, Department of Theory and History of International Relations

Yury Kovalev, PhD in Geography, associate professor, Chair of International Relations, Ural Federal University named after the first President of Russia B.N. Yeltsin, Yekaterinburg, Russia. Research interests: innovative regions of the world, processes of convergence and divergence in the world economy, problems of modern economic geography, economic geography, world civilizations. Author of over 40 works in this field, including 5 monographs.

Anatoly Stepanov, Ural Federal University, Institute of Further Education and Vocational Training

Anatoly Stepanov, PhD in Geography, professor, Head of the Chair of Economics of Institute of Further Education and Vocational Training, Ural Federal University named after the first President of Russia B.N. Yeltsin, Ekaterinburg, Russia. Research interests: socio-economic asymmetry in the economic development of the
regions, the impact of globalisation on the transformation of regions, theory of clusters and cluster strategies, world economy, globalisation, cluster policy, economic geography. Author of over 360 works in this field, including 6 monographs.

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2020-12-24

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Burnasov, A. ., Ilyushkina, M., Kovalev, Y., & Stepanov, A. . (2020). Logistics infrastructure of the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) in providing transit from China to the European Union. Studies of the Industrial Geography Commission of the Polish Geographical Society, 34(4), 138–150. https://doi.org/10.24917/20801653.344.9

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Vol. 34 No. 4 (2020): The role of industry in the development of spatial systems

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