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Speculation and Shipping in the South China Sea

Elementum

The historic line still claimed by Beijing—despite contrary findings—referred to rather accurately when drawn out on a map as “the cow’s tongue,” covers the Paracel Islands, the Scarborough Shoal, the Spratlys, and sidles right up to several Southeast Asian countries’ borders: namely, Brunei, Vietnam, Malaysia, and the Philippines.

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36 innovative companies re-inventing and rethinking supply chain and logistics

6 River Systems

In early 2013, Belk launched a vendor-direct program. In 2018, iHerb opened its first international 3PL distribution center in South Korea, the first in the country since its laws changed to allow foreign ecommerce companies. The organizations’ fulfillment networks in the U.S. PST will ship the same day.