Trump tariffs on China a boost for exporters in Vietnam, Thailand and South Korea
US president-elect Donald Trump’s planned tariffs on Chinese products are expected to boost containerised imports ...
Container volumes at Thailand’s Laem Chabang port remained flat last year, despite a big uptick in US-bound cargo.
According to Alphaliner, Thailand recorded a 17.8% increase in export volumes to the US in 2019, reaching 620,000 teu. This increase was second only to Vietnam, where volumes jumped 34.8% to 1.5m teu.
However, a spokesman for Hutchison Ports Thailand (HPT), the largest terminal operator at Laem Chabang, the country’s key shipping gateway, said the increase in US cargo volumes had not been not ...
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