CSM analysis: “North Seaway Transport: Breakthrough or Illusion?”

"In September 2025, a Chinese container ship Istanbul Bridge, belonging to the Sea Legend Line line, left the port of Qingdao and after little than 3 weeks the way through the Northern Maritime Road reached Gdańsk. Chinese communications referred to the "historical shortening of the distance between Asia and Europe", Polish media wrote about the "logistics gap", and Port Gdańsk announced that it "opens to a fresh transport reality". Is this the beginning of a geographical revolution that will change the map of the planet or alternatively a geopolitical staging?" - writes Maciej Gaca, prof. of the University of Science, associate of the Asian Observatory at the Center for global Relations; sinologist, linguist, diplomat. From 2015 to 2019 he was the CEO of the Polish Bureau in Taipei. Lecturer at the Institute of Culture at Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń

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