Too fast, too soon: how China’s growth led to the Tianjin disaster

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May 23, 2017 /
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By John Woodside with additional reporting by Si Chen, Xu Wenjuan and Liu Huilan 23/05/2017 The 2015 warehouse explosion in Tianjin was one of the worst manmade disasters in Chinese history – and exposed the darker side of rapid urbanisation This article is a project of UBC’s International Reporting Program It was almost midnight on

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By Gavin van Marle 23/05/2017 CMA CGM will levy a cancellation fee on European shippers and forwarders that do not deliver their containers for booked services to Indian subcontinent, Middle East Gulf and Red Sea ports. In remarks that echo some of the problems carriers were having with space on the eastbound trades out of Europe,

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May 22, 2017 /
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By Ari Ashe, Staff Reporter 5/22/2017 The top North American ports had another strong month in April as larger vessels begin to arrive and drop off more containers in a single stop than ever before. The Georgia Ports Authority processed 333,006 industry-standard 20-foot-equivalent units, or TEUs, a 12% increase compared with April 2016. The total

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