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The Global Logjam: Why Empty Chinese Shipping Containers Are Piling Up and What It Means

The sight is becoming increasingly common: vast stretches of land near major ports, choked with stacks upon stacks of brightly colored metal boxes. These aren’t goods waiting to be delivered, but empty Chinese shipping containers, silent witnesses to a global trade imbalance and a logistics system under immense strain. Consider the aerial photographs of the … Read more

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