Ports hold rubber inventories as car sales fall

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By Alex Lennane

30/05/2012

Qingdao port is holding 200,000 tons of rubber in bonded warehouses, while inventories in Japan are also climbing. Rubber is now the worst-performing commodity as car sales weaken across Europe, and in China, the biggest car market. It doesn’t bode well for the logistics industry.

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