News / China-US trade war could be the founder of a feast for intra-Asia box traffic

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Booming intra-Asia trades stand to benefit the most from a lengthy US-China trade war.

But low freight rates, overcapacity and poor schedule reliability is putting pressure on shipping lines operating in what is the world’s biggest container market.

According to Philip Damas, head of Drewry Supply Chain Advisors, intra-Asia works “on different dynamics” to the major east-west trades.

“There’s still a huge amount of competition there, where there’s no shortage of capacity and rates are down,” he said at the TPM Asia conference in Shenzhen ...