Eventually, they say, the river valley will be an important trade conduit and will attract substantial investment.
The 1.4 million square miles of the sea are "crucial to the future of China as a growing maritime nation," since the sea is a trade conduit between China and the United States, Africa and Europe, the video says.
Further, it developed gradually rather than making the sudden appearance that would have characterized the arrival of a people en masse; moreover, it is quite easily explained by reference to the trade conduits established by the Euboean Greeks in the 8th century bce.
As well as allowing the passage of pasta, canned sardines and tomatoes across the Sahel desert, trade routes provide a conduit for smuggled cigarettes, arms and drugs.
The destination of my car trip with Evmorfidis was Volos, a vigorous port city in Thessaly and conduit for trade with Asia, where he had been asked to speak about the crisis to a group of business leaders.
Questions are being asked about accounts for local party fund-raising dinners which appear, for reasons not yet explained, to have been used as a conduit for trade union donations destined for election funds.
The highway, in particular, has been a major conduit for trade and the flow of fighters inside the area declared as a caliphate by the group's leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, in mid-2014.
What Turks do and think affects the balance of power in the world, positioned as they are between the Middle East and Europe, between Russia and the Arab-Islamic bloc, while serving as a conduit for trade and supplies to Iraq in the south and Georgia in the north.
The role of civet cats in the SARS pandemic and the smuggling of avian influenza A(H5N1) virus infected birds of prey into Europe showed that the legal and illegal wildlife trade is an effective conduit for zoonotic pathogens to enter new niches (24, 25 ).
Other conduits, including trade flows, are either insignificant or not robust.
During the early nineteenth century the Indian Ocean was a vital conduit of British trade, connecting Britain with its colonies and trading posts in the Far East.
