It will open the trade routes linking South Asia and Central Asia.
Stafford lies on road and rail routes linking London, Birmingham, and Manchester.
It was one of the most ancient trading routes, linking the heart of Africa with successive northern empires.
In addition, NY Waterway now operates 22 ferries on nine routes linking New Jersey and Manhattan, and Manhattan and Queens.
Labor is cheap, and the country sits astride the main road, rail and river routes linking Europe and the Balkans.
However, it is traversed by various routes linking the more-attractive areas north and south of it.
So are five east-west routes linking Thailand and Vietnam, three via Laos and two via Cambodia.
Kunming, about 1,300 miles south-west of Beijing, is a bustling university town and major commercial hub on trade routes linking southern China to neighbouring Vietnam.
For thousands of years that portion of the Vltava's course where Prague was to rise was crossed by trade routes linking northern and southern Europe.
Cambodia is largely a land of plains and great rivers and lies amid important overland and river trade routes linking China to India and Southeast Asia.
Six years later a study by the British air regulator, the Civil Aviation Authority, had identified 27 different routes, linking 12 Polish cities to 12 British ones.
