{"id":86618,"date":"2026-09-21T07:14:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-20T23:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=86618"},"modified":"2026-09-21T07:14:00","modified_gmt":"2026-09-20T23:14:00","slug":"chinas-pinglu-canal-could-boost-trade-with-south-east-asia-strengthen-regional-supply-chains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=86618","title":{"rendered":"China&#8217;s Pinglu Canal could boost trade with South-east Asia, strengthen regional supply chains"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"article-body-container\">\n<p class=\"whitespace-pre-wrap break-words mb-4 md:mb-6\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-component\">[SINGAPORE] The opening of the Pinglu Canal in Guangxi, China, is likely to bring benefits to Asean in the long term, although currently the impact is \u201cminimal\u201d on South-east Asia ports including Singapore, observers say.<\/p>\n<p class=\"whitespace-pre-wrap break-words mb-4 md:mb-6\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-component\">Associate Professor Loh Hui Shan of the Singapore University of Social Sciences believes that the Republic could benefit from additional trade, feeder traffic and maritime services.<\/p>\n<p class=\"whitespace-pre-wrap break-words mb-4 md:mb-6\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-component\">That said, the academic \u2013 who has a PhD in maritime studies \u2013 pointed out that some transhipment flows could also be redirected from Singapore if shipping lines introduce more direct services to regional destinations from Guangxi\u2019s Beibu Gulf ports.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.businesstimes.com.sg\/international\/chinas-pinglu-canal-likely-benefit-singapore-other-south-east-asia-ports-long-term\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><br \/>\n<center\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[SINGAPORE] The opening of the Pinglu Canal in Guangxi, China, is likely to bring benefits to Asean in the long term, although currently the impact&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":86619,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2611],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-buzz-headlines","wpcat-2611-id"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=86618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86618\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/86619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=86618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=86618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=86618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}