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Have they gone overboard?
01 Oct 2005
Well on the road to becoming the world's workshop, a port building frenzy has hit China in recent years. But does it amount to too much, asks Neil Madden .
China's exports and imports are almost entirely dependent on sea transport since 90% of its total trade is handled via the country's ports. With the buoyant world demand for household goods, so many of them now made in China, growth rates of container movements through its ports are staggering.
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