COMMENT: Due diligence is vital in a post-Qingdao world

摘要

As the second anniversary of the Qingdao port scandal approaches, itseems a good moment to take a look at what we do know, what wedon’t know and what market participants should be doing as therepercussions continue to emerge.In a nutshell, the scandal centred on revelations that base metalsin warehouses at the port had been pledged multiple times.