Uzbekistan Forges Ahead, Deepening Relations With Taliban-ruled Afghanistan
August 21st, 2024
Via The Diplomat, a report on a growing relationship between Uzbekistan and Afghanistan: On Saturday, August 17 Uzbek Prime Minister Abdulla Aripov became the highest-ranking foreign leader to visit Afghanistan since the Taliban’s 2021 return to power. The $2.5 billion in trade and investment deals signed between the two sides, just days after the third […]
Read more »Southeast Asia’s Old Airports Taking Off Once Again
August 21st, 2024
Via Nikkei Asia, an article on Southeast Asia’s old airports which are revving back to life: Since last year, Indonesian airline TransNusa has routinely shuttled passengers between Jakarta and Kuala Lumpur two to three times each day. But when its Airbus A320 plane touched down outside Malaysia’s commercial capital on Aug. 1, it was hailed […]
Read more »The U.S.-Backed Railway Sparking A Battle For African Copper
August 21st, 2024
Courtesy of The Financial Times, a look at how Washington’s support for a minerals train connecting the DRC to the Atlantic illustrates its desire to compete with China: As the US ambassador’s car pulled into a port terminal on Angola’s Atlantic coast last month, the longshoremen queueing for work were ecstatic at the sight of […]
Read more »A $2 Trillion Reckoning Looms as Ports Become Pawns in Geopolitics
August 21st, 2024
Via Bloomberg, an article on how ports have become pawns in geopolitics, as these gateways to global trade face costly conversions to retool in new era of rivalry, automation and green energy: For centuries, control of the world’s biggest shipping centers helped expand empires, spark and settle wars, ease poverty and build middle classes while […]
Read more »Poland’s Big Bet On A New Airport
August 21st, 2024
Courtesy of The Financial Times, an article on Poland’s big bet on a new airport, project seen as the next big thing in the country’s economic development: Before it can become central and eastern Europe’s largest transport hub, Poland’s new airport could first test the ability of its feuding politicians to stay the course on a […]
Read more »UK Partners With DP World to Build Congo’s First Deep-Sea Port
August 20th, 2024
Via Bloomberg, an article on plans to build the DRC’s first deep sea port: British International Investment to invest $35 million Commercial development to start soon at Congo’s port of Banana DP World and the British government’s development-finance arm will break ground on a deep-sea port in the Democratic Republic of Congo as the Emirate logistics […]
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