Plastic war turns flow empty containers

In an analysis on its website, the terminal operator shed light on the imbalance between full and empty containers in West-East trade flows. “The trade balance on the main Asia-Europe and Transpacific routes has increased significantly. It was previously estimated that for every container exported from Europe and North America to Asia, two to three travelled in the opposite direction. Anecdotal evidence now suggests that these numbers have further increased to four in the opposite direction,” it sounds.