Asia’s importance to shipping markets looms large in this winter issue of TW+.
As speakers and delegates gathered for a TradeWinds Shipping China conference in Shanghai, the Communist Party Congress in Beijing approved President Xi Jinping’s “new era” that aims to cement his country’s place as the 21st century’s global power.
China’s industrial expansion since joining the World Trade Organization just after the turn of the century fuelled the shipping industry’s greatest boom in living memory.
