Marco Polo Marine expects to weather the storm of potential shipping slowdown
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Yong Jun Yuan
AT FIRST glance, Marco Polo Marine’s shipyard in Batam, Indonesia, appears to be deserted.
When The Business Times visited the facility on Jan 16, two bulker carriers and a ferry were parked in their respective drydocks.
But as a siren wailed through the air around noon, about 1,000 workers began filing out of the shipyard to take their lunch breaks.
