Seatrade Asia Week reports on the new nine-month transpacific peak season

Singapore: Issue 07 of Seatrade Asia Week is just out with another set of scoops and interviews with many of the leading names of the shipping industry. Inside, subscribers will find out about a new peak season on the transpacific container tradelane that will now stretch for nine months of the year, as well as the thoughts of the chief commercial officer of Maersk Line on the hazy prospects for the second half of 2010. Also included are all the latest news and deals from China's frenzied shipbuilding sector as well as word from on the ground in the "war zone" of Bangkok on how shipping operations have managed to continue working during the harsh political climate of the past week. This week's feature looks at the infrastructure shortfalls in Vietnam while the analysis page questions the merits of slow steaming.
Seatrade Asia Week is produced in Singapore and draws upon an exclusive network of journalists across the region. Subscription for 50 issues a year is just US$300. For more details on this publication, click here.  [21/05/10]