Secondary box trades take centre stage, with global volume growth set to wane
Delegates at this week’s TOC Europe Container Supply Chain 2025 event in Rotterdam were told ...
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PROLOGUE
In late February, Premium ran an article examining how Russia’s inbound container flows had been transformed in the two years since its invasion of Ukraine, with St Petersburg (SPB, as it is is known in shipping circles) supplanted by its Pacific ports of Vladivostok and Vostochny as the main gateway for its containerised imports over the course of 2022 and 2023.
The exact cause of the shift was undetermined, but was largely thought to be due to the fact that St ...
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