Vladivostok

  • Context (IE): Indian companies face logistics constraints for transporting copper concentrate from Mangolia, the landlocked Central Asian country to India.
  • The possible routes are by rail to Chian’s Tiajin port or a combined road and rail route to Vladivostok.

Vladivostok

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  • Vladivostok is a port city on the Pacific Ocean shore of the Russian Far East.
  • It is located around Zolotoy Rog (“Golden Horn Bay”) on the western side of Muravyov-Amursky peninsula that separates Amur and Ussuri bays on the Sea of Japan.
  • It is the end point of the Trans-Siberian Railway, and is the first free seaport of the Far East.

Yellow Sea

Yellow Sea

  • Also known as North Sea, it is a marginal sea of the Western Pacific Ocean located between mainland China and the Korean Peninsula, and can be considered the northwestern part of the East China Sea.
  • It is separated from the Sea of Japan by the boundary from the southern end of Haenam Peninsula to Jeju Island in South Korea.
  • The innermost bay of the northwestern Yellow Sea is called the Bohai Sea, into which flow the Yellow River, the Hai River and the Liao River.
  • The northeastern extension of the Yellow Sea is called the Korea Bay, into which flow the Yalu River, the Chongchon River and the Taedong River.
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