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China-Europe rail freight volumes have passed last year’s total, while tension on the Poland-Belarus border has seen alternative routes jostling for a favour. According to China Railway, between January-October there were 12,605 train trips, carrying 1.22m teu, up respectively 26% and 33% year on year, beating 2020’s 1.14m teu. The railway operator noted there were …

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Last Monday, Wen Peng was working the late shift at a parts factory in central China’s Hunan province when the power cut off. It was just after midnight. “The machines stopped working, so the factory sent us home,” he said. Parts of China have been experiencing power cuts that are hitting millions of homes and …

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Global shoppers face possible shortages of smartphones and other goods ahead of Christmas after power cuts to meet official energy use targets forced Chinese factories to shut down and left some households in the dark. In the northeastern city of Liaoyang, 23 people were hospitalized with gas poisoning after ventilation in a metal casting factory …

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