Comment / Supply chain radar: CIMC, MCI & China's box building domination

China USA trade and tariffs war, © Alexlmx

© Alexlmx

By Gavin van Marle

06/04/2022

The US-China trade war has been somewhat on the back burner since actual war broke out in Europe, but despite the ejection of Trump from the White House, it has never actual gone away. On the new supply chain front, we may well be about to enjoy another chapter of the China-US war of worlds, this time with a heavy container slant.

A shortage of boxes has been the bane of shippers’ lives the world over during the past couple of ...

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