China’s manufacturers are moving factories inland along the Yangtze River, creating traffic jams on Asia’s longest river and prompting container terminal operators to invest in ports along the 3,915 mile-long (6,300 kilometer-long) Yangtze, which reaches Tibet.
Cui Ming, a local manager for Chongqing JHJ Shipping, said, "There are too many ships and we can hardly secure a place. The business is growing so massively, we sometimes need to get up at midnight and rush to the dock to assist our ships to get a berth."
China’s manufacturers are moving factories inland to benefit from lower wages.
Johnson Leung, an analyst at Tufton Oceanic Far East in Hong Kong, said, "There is a grand plan to go west. It will be good business for port operators."
The Seattle Times reports the waterway ferried 1.34 billion tons of cargo in 2009, more than triple the 400 million tons it carried in 2000.
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