PortandTerminal.com, July 6, 2020 HANOI, VIETNAM – We’ve all seen variations of this video in the past. Impatient watercraft operators forgetting that ships can’t stop or turn on a dime. In this case, a woman in charge of a riverboat in Vietnam thought she could just squeeze through a narrow passage under a bridge before a larger vessel made its …
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Bloomberg, November 20, 2019 HANOI, VIETNAM – Vietnam is intensifying efforts to crack down on Chinese exporters trying to route products through the Southeast Asian nation to bypass higher US tariffs, a customs official said. Vietnam has become one of the top destinations for suppliers looking to avoid US duties on Chinese products amid the trade dispute, making the country …
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PortandTerminal.com, November 2, 2019 The bodies of 39 Asians found in a refrigerated truck trailer near a port in England were initially thought to be Chinese nationals. It has now been discovered that all victims were Vietnamese, most from the same part of Vietnam ESSEX, ENGLAND – All 39 people found dead in a refrigerated truck in Essex were Vietnamese, …
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PortandTerminal.com, October 20, 2019 The Vietnamese vessel Vietsun Integrity, carrying 17 crew members and 285 containers, capsized and sank on Long Tau river, in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam on October 19 BANGKOK, THAILAND – A container ship carrying 285 containers capsized on the Long Tau River, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, in the early hours of Saturday morning. The …
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PortandTerminal.com, June 17, 2019 Rain and flooding this spring, as well as President Trump’s trade war with China, aren’t the only forces hurting the Midwest’s corn and soybean farmers. A deadly, highly contagious disease called African swine fever is sweeping through China’s hog farms, literally killing demand for American feed An outbreak of African swine fever, a highly contagious disease …
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