Pakistan and Russia are as enthused about the Silk Trade Route's revival as China itself.
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Kenya is East Africa's biggest economy and a crucial trade route into the rest of the continent.
More often than not, a bilateral deal unblocks one trade route only to silt up its tributaries.
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Or we could go the cap and trade route, which is what these permits are all about.
Heading northeast from Shimla, Highway 22 still follows the old Hindustan-Tibet trade route.
Mikumi lies along a trade route that has connected the East African coast with huge inland lakes for hundreds of years.
His state, which shares a border with Bangladesh and poppy-producing Burma, is on a drug trade route and has a high hiv infection rate.
Take a scenic drive along the Turquoise Trail National Scenic Byway, "a major trade route since at least 2000 BC, " says BBC Travel.
He was a religious genius who grew up on the Silk Road in ancient Palestine, on that magical trade route connecting East and West.
Rangoon was one of the world's most vibrant ports a key link in the trade route from Calcutta to Shanghai and a place that lured royals, celebrities, artists and adventurers.
Transat Jacques Vabre competitors sail in the opposite direction to the coffee trade route of the 19th Century, leaving Le Havre in France and heading for Salvador de Bahia in Brazil.
"International navies are the only ones capable of effective response against piracy in the region and can help to secure the safety and security of this major maritime trade route, " Mukundan said.
Due to their size and the nearby bones, some archaeologists think the urns were prehistoric burial sites for an ancient civilisation that travelled along a forgotten overland trade route between the Mekong River and the Gulf of Tonkin.
Everyone is worried about potential civil strife and its effect on the region, but there is also an economic aspect: while losing trade with Syria might not make a difference to most neighbors, losing the trade route will.
The event coincides with the International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade and some of the participating students are travelling on a replica of the Amistad which is retracing the Slave Trade Route.
As the largest economy in East Africa, it is a crucial trade route into the rest of the continent and provides an important buffer of stability in a region that includes the fledgling Somali government and the politically tense Sudan and South Sudan.
Earlier on Monday, the Pentagon said the US aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln, as well as a British Royal Navy frigate and a French warship, had passed through the Strait of Hormuz at the entrance to the Gulf without incident, following Iranian threats to block the trade route.
It has a new deepwater port, Gwadar, and provides a route for trade and pipelines to Central Asia.
The spice route and spice trade was very important to this region, and no other geography can claim that it is rich in pepper with 90% of the production coming from the Asian region.
We spend hundreds of hours on board a variety of airplanes each year, most often en-route to a trade show or product launch event, but occasionally we have a rare opportunity to hop on board military aircraft, to test out unrelated products, or, even more unusually, to take a seat behind the yoke.
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Kittles believes that it's because what is now Sierra Leone was a common route for the slave trade.
The government is considering an alternative route for a major trade highway that would run to the south of the park.
You may want to test the waters with a potential trade client, but if you go this route, be sure to make it one or two service-to-service swaps with specific timelines and services in mind.
Credit Suisse estimates that 35% of China COSCO's revenue and 32% of China Shipping Container Lines' comes from the Asia-Europe route, while earnings from European trade for the country's port operators varies between 7.3% to 34.1%.
The 4, 300 mile route takes competitors through a number of diverse weather systems, including the trade winds off the Canaries and Cape Verde islands, and the doldrums over the equator.
In addition, while the Wazirs control some of the most fertile valleys and lucrative trade routes on the border, the Mehsuds are left with largely barren mountains and barely an exit route which they can undisputedly call their own.
Second, even to the extent that trade liberalization would raise the efficiency of the world economy, it is not, repeat not, a route to overall job creation.
But the two countries' focus on trade has also allowed symbolic gestures of greater mutual trust, such as the reopening in 2006 of an overland trading route through Sikkim that had been closed since the 1962 Sino-Indian war.
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