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Pakistan opens up road trade routes into Iran amid Hormuz blockade

With shipping disrupted by US-Iran tensions, Islamabad activates overland corridor to move stranded cargo into Iran.

The 'Polar Bear Capital' with Arctic gateway ambitions

Canada is weighing whether a year-round northern trade route to Europe from Churchill, Manitoba, is viable, as climate change speeds Arctic warming.

As US-Iran war chokes Hormuz, can Central Asiaโ€™s โ€˜Middle Corridorโ€™ rise to the rescue?

As the US-Israeli war with Iran chokes off shipping through the Strait of Hormuz, the โ€œMiddle Corridorโ€ is being held up as a critical alternative lifeline linking East Asia to Europe. Also known as the Trans-Caspian International Transport Route, the Middle Corridor is a multimodal logistics route that connects China and Europe via Kazakhstan in Central Asia, Azerbaijan and Georgia in the South Caucasus, the Caspian Sea and Turkey. Waqar Ahmad, president of Kazakhstanโ€™s Nazarbayev University,...