Vladivostok

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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 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

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.