{"id":161570,"date":"2025-09-26T12:55:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T12:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/161570\/"},"modified":"2025-09-26T12:55:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T12:55:09","slug":"emerging-markets-are-the-new-engine-of-global-trade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/161570\/","title":{"rendered":"Emerging markets are the new engine of global trade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa\u2019s geographic position at the southern tip of Africa places it at the crossroads of some of the world\u2019s busiest sea lanes.<\/p>\n<p>With persistent Houthi attacks and geopolitical instability in the Red Sea, and congestion in other major shipping corridors, more global trade is being rerouted around the Cape of Good Hope.<\/p>\n<p>This makes South Africa\u2019s ports, shipping services and broader\u00a0logistics\u00a0system not just a national asset but a critical link in sustaining global supply chains.<\/p>\n<p>The country\u2019s geographic location is a strategic advantage that, if matched with operational\u00a0investment, can translate into lasting competitiveness\u00a0and economic growth based on global trade.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full column by the regional head of International Container Terminal Services in our \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.freightnews.co.za\/article\/emerging-markets-are-the-new-engine-of-global-trade\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Columns<\/a>\u201d section.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"South Africa\u2019s geographic position at the southern tip of Africa places it at the crossroads of some of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":161571,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[84,467,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-161570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-markets","tag-business","tag-markets","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161570\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/161571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}