A train road can't handle economic scale like ships can. The belt is a excuse for modern colonization through debts
Ships try to deliver cargo as deep in the country as possible. Then trucks take over ( Europe), because of different destinations.
You think they are joining the world trade order, I just see an expensive debt trap that won't even change 0,1% in a countries trade
It's that I call bullshit on the one road one belt.
That trains vs container ships is irrelevant. Trains lose big time
That's it's more a "build useless infrastructure that you otherwise can't afford and that Chinese will build with no locals" debt trap for countries to China.
2 weeks is also no replacement for ships, because of scale. It's something in the middle where there is no alternative.
It's also insignificant alternative in the scale against ships.