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US recyclable exporters head to alternate markets after China ban
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THE volume of US recyclable exports to alternate destinations picked up markedly from August through December, after China's banned imports.
Exporters of recyclable material in the United States quickly began to find new Asian markets after China announced an import ban in July 2017, but the large volume shipped to China will be hard to replace.
Data from PIERS show that exports of recyclables to China in 2016 totalled one million TEU, which by the end of 2017 had fallen by 21.6 per cent or 215,583 TEU.
India is the number two destination where 2017 volume rose 4.9 per cent to 85,013 TEU, and to Vietnam, the number three market where traffic skyrocketed 239 per cent to 33,300 TEU from 9,813 TEU in 2016. Malaysia is up 281.3 per cent to 12,397 TEU from 3,251 TEU in 2016. Taiwan also grew its volume 36.7 per cent to 18,377 TEU.
Eighty per cent of the waste product volume that enters China, which Drewry Maritime Advisers estimated at four to five million TEU in 2016, is shipped from the United States, Japan, and the United Kingdom. The curbs on a wide range of waste imports enforced on March 1.
All the other top carriers posted losses, led by 48.7 per cent at Hapag-Lloyd, which transported 36,703 TEU of recyclable waste in 2017, followed by the 35.1 per cent drop at Maersk-Hamburg Sud to 132,655 TEU, and "K" Linewas down 31.1 per cent to 32,964 TEU.
Despite a surge in exports to Taiwan, Yang Ming was down 27.2 per cent to 27,722 TEU, and Evergreen was flat at 0.1 per cent to 126,351 TEU.
Exporters of recyclable material in the United States quickly began to find new Asian markets after China announced an import ban in July 2017, but the large volume shipped to China will be hard to replace.
Data from PIERS show that exports of recyclables to China in 2016 totalled one million TEU, which by the end of 2017 had fallen by 21.6 per cent or 215,583 TEU.
India is the number two destination where 2017 volume rose 4.9 per cent to 85,013 TEU, and to Vietnam, the number three market where traffic skyrocketed 239 per cent to 33,300 TEU from 9,813 TEU in 2016. Malaysia is up 281.3 per cent to 12,397 TEU from 3,251 TEU in 2016. Taiwan also grew its volume 36.7 per cent to 18,377 TEU.
Eighty per cent of the waste product volume that enters China, which Drewry Maritime Advisers estimated at four to five million TEU in 2016, is shipped from the United States, Japan, and the United Kingdom. The curbs on a wide range of waste imports enforced on March 1.
All the other top carriers posted losses, led by 48.7 per cent at Hapag-Lloyd, which transported 36,703 TEU of recyclable waste in 2017, followed by the 35.1 per cent drop at Maersk-Hamburg Sud to 132,655 TEU, and "K" Linewas down 31.1 per cent to 32,964 TEU.
Despite a surge in exports to Taiwan, Yang Ming was down 27.2 per cent to 27,722 TEU, and Evergreen was flat at 0.1 per cent to 126,351 TEU.