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Japan to test new freight routes amid global supply chain instability

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An official at the transport ministry said it will "carry out investigations including on what improvements are needed to employ the new routes."

A few tasty overseas trips for far too many bureaucrats at taxpayers' expense coming up.

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Siding with Russia due to their trade routes in the Arctic?

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talk is cheap and this one is really cheap one.

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Forward planning is better than retrospective reaction.

Routes via China leave you open to the same economic blackmail that they are so keen on applying as soon as you do/say anything they don’t approve of. That route would also require numerous border crossings and paperwork not to mention transshipping from ship to rail the rail to ship to cross the Caspian Sea and back to rail again.

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Too late . They should have taken a step much before when there were no containers and ships arriving in japan.

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Russia has cut Japanese,routes from Europe, meaning Japan have to fly hours more to reach EU

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Try drawing a line from Japan to Europe that avoids BRI and SCO countries. Then draw a line from China to Europe. Notice how much longer the Japanese line is.

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