Transit transportation of containers via the Russian Railways network will grow to 4 million TEU in 2027. That’s almost four times what it was in 2021, and some experts consider such a plan «virtually unrealizable.»

Against the prevailing narrative of the The Belt and Road as a top-down strategy to spread China’s geopolitical influence, there is the BRI’s impact through its first decade as emanating «from the middle out and bottom up» via transport-enabled corridors traversing a large number of regions within and across national territories.