By Chris Weafer CEO of Macro-Advisory Sanctions against Russia and the voluntary boycott of Russian ports and transit routes ...

A new book of photographs captures the landscapes, buildings and faces along the route that once conveyed untold wealth ...

Hospital ships function as floating mobile medical facilities—supporting military missions, disaster relief and humanitarian ...

Silk Road Ark, China's biggest hospital ship, is on maiden voyage, with hopes it will 'better serve operational demand and ...

The Silk Road, the ancient trading ... China’s plan to build veins of trade over land and sea into Europe and Asia may be the most significant global economic initiative in the world today.

Lidar mapping shows large walled cities thrived along the Silk Road in the Tien Shan mountains. Skip to content Ars Technica home. ... around 6,500 feet above sea level in modern-day Uzbekistan.

The medieval settlements are situated at around 2,000 to 2,200 meters (6,562 to 7,218 feet) above sea level. "The possibility of such a large city situated 2,000 to 2,200 meters above sea level is ...

Scientists Document Lost Mountain Cities on Silk Road in Uzbekistan By Will Dunham (Reuters) - In the mountains of Uzbekistan, archaeologists aided by laser-based remote-sensing technology have ...

For the moment, the Black Sea lags behind the Mediterranean, North Sea, and Baltic Sea in terms of volumes of short-sea shipping, accounting for only 6.5 percent of the EU-27’s SSS volume.

The Silk Road Maritime International Association, based in Fujian Province, is implementing a comprehensive development strategy to promote a global sea transportation network under the Belt and ...

Chen Yan, a professor with Beijing University and one of the initiators of research on the culture of "silk road on the sea," said shipping business in Ningbo started earlier than the Tang Dynasty ...