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, ...
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By Alex Lennane
A couple of good points in this Forbes article on sourcing. “Eventually prices will have to rise” notes the author, but what will manufacturers do in the meantime? Low costs and a young population make sub-Saharan Africa interesting – but is that enough? Do manufacturers consider cost as well as price? And why is 40% of Asia’s population broadly dismissed by factories?
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