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Instead, Antwerp should use its great resource, land around the docks, to attract shipping-related businesses that would do more in Antwerp than just land cargo. As a port executive explained the new rules, “It’s not a game about tons, it’s a game about employment and diversification, and added value creation.”2 Such talk reflected a dramatic chang
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Post-1973 globalization has more than tripled the mass of seaborne trade and brought major shifts in its composition.[76] While in 1973 tanker traffic (dominated by crude oil and refined products) accounted for more than half of the transported total, in 2018 goods amounted to about 70 percent, a shift reflecting not only the rise of Asia—and, abov
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