Shanghai’s box boom exposes a resilience blind spot

In container shipping, the leverage – and the real fragility – now lives where the cranes greet the sea, writes Wolfgang Lehmacher.  Shanghai has just pulled off something remarkable, even by its own lofty standards. The world’s largest container port handled more than 46m teu in the first 10 months of 2025, up 6.5% year-on-year, …