China's Silk Road initiatives could shake up European port cities' status quo

On July 23, a packed freight train came to a halt in the Port of Rotterdam, the Netherlands, where clattering forklift trucks unloaded heaping mounds of coffee. The beans' arrival marked the first time for goods from China to reach Europe’s biggest port by the former's newly built railway line—part of a much bigger and more grandly titled initiative. 
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