Drawing the Economical Balanced Line for Railway and Sea Way Transportation between Iran and China

Abstract

In international trade, from a cargo departure point to destination point, there may be two basic ways to use transportation means, by sea or railway as there are geographically several  availabilities of airways ,railway lines and sea voyage lines and meantime transportation costs are dynamically changed, it is possible to draw some area by use of Geographic-Economic Line, which gives business people an easy reference for their choosing transportation means for logistic solution to some kinds of cargos. This paper first introduces general situation of China-Europe and Middle East block train development. Second the paper focused on China-Iran block train case, collected various railway and sea way transportation route and rate information to support deep analysis. Third, the paper developed some formulas to find the balanced cost by using all available data. Finally, the paper traced from cost information to get geographic places which are further turn out to be as economic balanced lines marked in map which could serve as reference lines for their easy decision.