Not content with flat packs, Chinese furniture manufacturer Loctek, based in Shenzhen, is now to build its own containership. Plagued by chronic supply chain congestion caused by, well, a small plague, it has decided to take matters into its own hands and, in true pioneering spirit, will banish the container shipping blues by a do-it-yourself approach, highlighted in this excellent story in today’s Tradewinds.

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