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HONG KONG — Hong Kong’s container throughput could halve in the next decade as a host of factors begin to stack up against the port that has seen a steady decline in volumes over the past year. This stark prediction was made by Deutsche Bank in a detailed study that said the port could expect a 30 percent fall in throughput at best, and in a worst case scenario the volumes would be slashed by 50 percent. That would drop the throughput to 11 million TEUs a year and take Hong Kong out of the top 10 rankings. The bank...

Hong Kong’s container throughput could halve in the next decade as a host of factors begin to stack up against the port that has seen a steady decline in volumes over the past year.

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