Singapore’s faith in the liner trades appears undaunted as it presses ahead with plans to relocate its existing container terminals to a new port facility at the far western end of the island.

It is hard not to notice that Singapore is one of the world’s busiest container ports. The shoreline of the Central Business District is lined with large container terminals, affording the occupants of the nearby office towers a grandstand view of the seaborne movement of world trade.

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