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Breaking Industry Supply Chain News from Tesla

Supply Chain Matters

Supply Chain Matters highlights a breaking news development involving Tesla’s existing Nevada based Gigafactory that will be of interest to Automotive EV manufacturers and their supply networks. The announcement makes reference to the initial 2014 investment in the Gigafactory Nevada complex and a statement that upwards of $6.5

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Prep Your Supply Chain for Super Typhoon Soudelor

Elementum

Super Typhoon Soudelor is set to hit Taiwan and China tomorrow, with a huge potential for supply chain disruption. Update 8/09/2015, 18:03 PST: Tropical Storm Soudelor to Hit South Korea on August 11. Learn what you should expect, and how to best prepare your company’s supply chain.

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America Needs a Tune-up for Its Innovation Engine

Enterra Insights

One indication of China’s push for innovation is the fact that it has risen from 29th spot in Bloomberg Index in 2014 to the mid-teens in the latest report, although it did slip one spot this year. 2] Michelle Jamrisko, Alex Tanzi and Wei Lu, “ South Korea Leads World in Innovation as U.S. ” Footnotes. [1]

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Russia-Ukraine war: semiconductor value chain impact

Resilinc

Along with this human suffering, the war has triggered deep and costly disruptions to supply chains—including the already strained semiconductor value chain: Ukraine and Russia are key producers of neon and palladium. Palladium is used in sensor chips and many types of memory chips, and neon is essential for chip lithography.

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

6 River Systems

The world of supply chain and logistics is changing every day. Each one is featured as having done something unique to reinvent their supply chain and logistics. For discount retailers like Burlington, the supply chain is often a competitive advantage — and thus a secret recipe for success.

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What Your Global Forwarder Must Know about Importing to China

CH Robinson Transportfolio

According to the International Monetary Fund, China’s 2014 GDP reached $10.38 Between 2004 and 2014, China imported $13.52 Between 2004 and 2014, China imported $13.52 Most imports come from Europe, Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), South Korea, Japan, and United States, respectively, based on import value.

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Interoceanic Passages

Abivin

In the current global economy, the closure of a maritime chokepoint would have significant economic ramifications due to the disruption of trade flows and even some supply chains (e.g. A major enlargement project that raised the capacity to around 100 transits per day was completed in 2014. meters in 2008 as opposed to 22.5

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