Sure, I only brought up the cost because you asked how rail was feasible since it was 10 times cheaper to ship by ocean than rail, which looks like it could be negated by India with rail delivery if cost was the only consideration.
But if the new plan is mostly concerned with ocean freight, doesn’t that still benefit India, since they can already send freight by ocean faster than China even now before grandly entering global shipping?
I understood your concern with India not being able to compete with China to be specifically about the financial unfeasibility of rail travel.
Do you mean that only India has to unload in the UAE and load again when entering the Mediterranean?
Also clarifying question, why do they have to do that, just customs b*******? Is that a situation that should be addressed by either China or India’s BRI initiative?
Whether by rail or ocean, It seems like India has a leg up on the export situation if they can match the production output expected by Western Europe. If India can produce what consumers want and they can ship to those same consumers in half the time, it seems like India has the potential to break the monopoly China has right now on exporting manufactured goods.
The main problem I could think of was India not being able to acquire enough ships to move all of their goods since China has acquired so many shipping companies. Then again, I know China has been sending empty shippng containers for years now and the cost of shipping doubled or something for at least a couple years recently, so I don’t know their long-term plan for hanging on to all of those companies.