The line of trucks at the shipping container terminal at Teluk Bayur port on Thursday last week gradually grew shorter. One by one, the vehicles, which had been loaded with containers, left West Sumatra's main port to be replaced by empty ones. In another area, an automatic crane operator was busy unloading cargo from ships in dock to be transferred to the waiting trucks.

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