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OF all the trades in
the world today, the largest by far is the
Intra-Asia trade, which accounted for 21
per cent of all containerised shipments
last year, compared with just 15 per cent
and 14 per cent for the high-profile transpacific
and Asia-Europe trades.
A major market within the broader Intra-Asia
trade is Southeast Asia. It is this region
of the world that we will turn our focus
to in The Container Shipping Manager todayˇK
Before we looking more extensively into
the market of Southeast Asia, let's spend
a little time first understanding the Intra-Asia
market today and its place in the wider
global container shipping landscape.
Intra-Asia as an individual market in
the shipping industry typically refers to
the movement of goods within and between
the countries of Northeast Asia (China,
Japan and the Koreas) and Southeast Asia.
As shown in the below pie graph, and
as noted in the introduction, the Intra-Asia
trade today is the largest trade in the
world, and is in fact larger than entire
trade categories such as the North-South
and non-mainline east-west trades.
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In the above graph we see that the closest
market share percentage depicted is 19 per
cent, which is attributed to the North-South
trades, which comprises numerous individual
trades including Asia-Latin America, Europe-West
Africa, North America-Australasia, Asia-East
Africa and the list goes on and on.
Clearly, the Intra-Asia trade is a big
trade.
In actual volume terms let's look at
the below table.
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Here we see that Intra-Asia traffic last
year reached 29.05 million TEU, up a full
8.35 million TEU from the second busiest
trade in the world last year, the transpacific.
While the business activity is greater
than the major east-west trades of the transpacific
and Asia-Europe, there are also scores more
players in the market, ranging from the
leading global ocean carriers and regional
carriers as well.
As noted earlier, Southeast Asia, our
area of focus today, is but one of the regions
within the Intra-Asia trade, but as we can
see below it is a significant part of the
market.
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Of the more than 29 million TEU carried
on the Intra-Asia trade in 2011 over half
(15.1 million TEU) was Southeast Asia-related
cargo.
Speaking to the importance of Southeast
Asia in the broader market, approximately
25 per cent of Southeast Asia cargo last
year was intra-Southeast Asia business,
which itself comprises 13.5 per cent of
the Intra-Asia shipments for 2011.
Let's now turn our attention to the countries
and ports within the Southeast Asian region.
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