Box ship building in China hits new heights with 68.5% of global orders
China has become the undisputed front-runner in containership building, with an orderbook, extending to 2030, ...
The throughput of the top 10 Chinese container ports increased by 6.1% in 2013, compared with the previous year, to reach 146.8m teu. Shanghai comfortably held its top-ranked status processing 33.6m teu, representing growth of 3.3%, followed by Singapore, up 2.9% at 32.6m teu.
Generally last year, growth across Asian ports was healthy, particularly in South Korea where a year-on-year increase of 3.9% saw throughput rise to 23.4m teu.
However, at the other end of the world’s busiest tradelane, the northern range ...
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