JadeWeserPort: How China found its love • Table.Briefings

New connections to China are set to boost container throughput at JadeWeserPort (JWP) in Wilhelmshaven. Its partners already call the location part of the New Silk Road. Yet Germany is not a member of the initiative. Nevertheless, the rhetoric is well received in China, especially as the new direct connection creates a valuable alternative for Beijing in the looming dispute over the Panama Canal.

Aerial photos of the JadeWeserPort (JWP) in Wilhelmshaven reveal how a lot of green meets a lot of blue. The blue must be there, it’s the North Sea. After all, the JadeWeserPort is Germany’s only deep-water port. However, the states of Bremen and Lower Saxony and the operating companies Eurogate and APM Terminals International imagined the green differently when the port opened in 2012.

JadeWeserPort: How China found its love for a German deep-water port

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