News / Surging South-east Asian flows a boost for operators like DB Schenker

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For DB Schenker, Vietnam has been a strong market over the past year.

One factor in this was the repercussions of the trade conflict between the US and China, which accelerated the migration of manufacturing from the middle kingdom to neighbouring countries, noted Robert Reiter, chief executive of the South-east Asia Cluster of the logistics provider.

Vietnam has been a major beneficiary of the exodus from China: in the first 10 months of last year, US imports from the South-east Asian country ...