Once-busy docks in Busan idled by Hanjin
Since the world's 7th-largest container line filed for protection from creditors, the port has been paralysed as unshipped boxes pile up
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THE Hanjin Shipping Co terminal in South Korea's largest port used to be one of the world's busiest. Dozens of container carriers would line up to ferry boxes to and from the giant cranes that loaded and unloaded the world's biggest ships.
Last week, the terminal, as big as 100 football fields, came to a virtual standstill. In front of hundreds of containers stacked four-high, Seo Seong Deok, a 35-year-old driver of the port tractors, wondered if he would ever get to move them again.
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