A Comparative Study on the Dry Canal Future Project in Iraq and the Grand Canal Project in China

Abstract

Each country has its own political goal and strategic objective in manner of economic development and each is free to do what it wants in order to grow its economy to improve the living conditions of its people. In that way, a key consideration for Iraq is access to the sea and world trade. This desire is guiding to a major part of this larger vision that it calls ‘Dry Canal Project’ which will allow for transport of goods between the north and the south of the world quickly, cheaply and safely. It is expected that this project will enhance the transportation industry of goods in general, not only in Iraq, but on the world's level as well, and also will support the Iraqi national economy. Accordingly, this paper aims to determine via comparison the differences and similarities states between the future expected shape of the Dry Canal project in Iraq, and the great historical and ancient Grand Canal project in China, which is became an important hinge among the Northern and Southern regions and communicates the transportation from Hangzhou in the South to Beijing the capital in the North. So that, all the main differences and similarities states between the future Dry canal project and the Grand Canal has been analyzed in vertical and horizontal in this exertion, and hopes it will be helpful for furthered the frame of the Dry canal's impending Design, in accordance with general features of this massive project, which it was and still an a vision proposed by successive governments in Iraq.

Keywords: One Belt One Road, Dry Canal, Grand Canal, Routes, Transportation, Goods