EU’s Biggest Port Sees Geopolitical Risks Linked to China Trade

Europe’s biggest port warned that it’s increasingly exposed to geopolitical risks related to trade with China.

In light of recent controversy about Chinese control of container terminals in the region “the real economic vulnerability is not who leases those terminals, but what’s inside those containers,” said Boudewijn Siemons, the chief executive officer of the Port of Rotterdam Authority. “Around a quarter of all containers arrive from China, and more than another quarter contain components made in China.”