South Korea has deployed an extra nine vessels on the Trans-Pacific route to help local manufacturers while China’s state-owned shipyard, Cosco Shipping Heavy Industry, has converted at least one freshly built paper-and-pulp carrier to transport the containers.
NEW DELHI: Some of the world’s biggest exporters in Asia are intervening to alleviate a shipping container shortage that jeopardises their overseas trading.
Government-owned Indian Railways has moved empty boxes to inland depots like Delhi from seaports for free.
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