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Big ships and long supply chains
Looking for alternatives to Suez It is certainly a very sensible move for Japanese companies to at least look into alternative routes, although they must remember that each of those will also have drawbacks, Yoshitsugu Hayashi, a professor of transportation policy and systems at Chubu University, told DW.
According to Hayashi, there are three alternative routes that are available to link East Asia with Europe, while a fourth is under development.
The first is a return to the journey around the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa, which was the route used before the 193-kilometer-long (120-mile) Suez Canal was completed in November 1869.