How changes in shipping are affecting port cities

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Long and absorbing piece examining the relationship between ports and their host cities, and how the developments taking place in container shipping are having a profound effect on the way some cities – in this article, several secondary cities in Indonesia come under the microscope – are securing their futures by integrating themselves into the supply chains in the way that they haven’t done before. But it’s not easy, particularly since ports and their cities often have diametrically opposed needs.