The South Korean government decided today to increase capacity container shipping in order to ensure that support for exporters in view of the possible next shortage of containerised hold capacity and for minimise the impact on exports of rising sea shipping also determined by the decision of the companies to divert their ships on the route around the Cape of Good Hope to avoid crossing the region of The Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden, where attacks on the ships by the Houthi rebels.

On the occasion of today's meeting of Deputy Ministers for economic reports, the impact on the logistics activities at the service of imports and exports and measures to address the increase in the increase in exports have been assessed. the value of sea freight. The first measure decided by the government representatives is to agree with the company navigation HMM of Seoul the use in the current two-month period June-July of three additional container ships, for a capacity of 9,000 TEUs, on the routes to the west and west coasts. and the Middle East, to use in the second In the first half of this year, seven other major container ships Capacity, for a total of 70,000 TEUs, on the main routes and to use hold capacity (1,685 TEUs per mainly for use by small and medium-sized enterprises.

In addition, it was decided to bring forward the export support, initially planned for the end of 2024, consisting of the allocation of 20.2 billion won (15 million won) to help contain the costs of export through the assignment of specific vouchers. Among the other measures, the creation of a for the storage of containers in the port of Busan, the capacity of 700 TEUs, which will offer lower fares of those of the market.