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When your ship comes in: the economics of ports

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When your ship comes in: the economics of ports

Almost every time you buy something that isn't food, it's been imported, which means it's been packed onto a pallet that is put inside a container that is loaded onto a ship which sails to Australia where the process is reversed.

And for this to happen we need ports. Ports sit at the centre of importing and exporting in this country, and in some ways our port operations lead the world.

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Business, Economics and Finance, Industry, Marine Transport Industry, Road Transport Industry, Rail Transport Industry
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