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How the crisis in container ships could ruin Christmas

  • Written by Stavros Karamperidis, Lecturer in Maritime Economics, University of Plymouth

Ningbo-Zhousan may not exactly be a household name, but find something in your house made in China and it’s quite likely it was delivered from there. Ningbo-Zhousan, which overlooks the East China Sea some 200km south of Shanghai, is China’s second-busiest port, handling the equivalent of some 29 million 20-foot containers every year.

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