Intra-Asia trade to hit 50.7m TEUs by 2013 - Drewry

London-based shipping consultant Drewry Shipping estimates that intra-Asia trade will reach 50.7 million TEUs by 2013.
China's strategic position as a regional resource centre, and the emergence of new free-trade deals, has helped the intra-Asia trade to boom.
Intra-Asian trade, excluding the Middle East, Indian subcontinent and Australasia, amounted to 28.6 million TEUs in 2007, or one-fifth of total global trade.