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Doing Business in Thailand

QAD

Once known as Siam, Thailand became a constitutional monarchy in 1932. Thailand is the only Southeast Asian country not colonized by a European power. Thailand borders the Andaman Sea and the Gulf of Thailand. Manufacturing in Thailand. Thailand’s 63 paved airports moved 2,134,149,001 mt-km of freight in 2015.

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The automated container terminal and the odd (mis)adventure of the Google car

DELMIA Quintiq

The new PSA terminal was envisioned to move nearly 70 million containers per year, about double of the 2015 volume, while facing the simple truth – with the rapidly shrinking Singaporean workforce, there are less and less people willing to work, rain or shine, in a container yard. Well, here is a bit of mathematics for you.

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Doing Business in Japan

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As befits an island nation, transportation in Japan is robust across all modalities. Japan has more than 175 airports; 142 with paved runways and most of them capable of handling freight planes and jets. There are 23 air carriers registered in the country, and they moved 8,868,745,000 mt-km of freight in 2015. About 2.9%

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Interoceanic Passages

Abivin

Global Maritime Routes and Chokepoints Maritime routes are a few kilometers wide corridors that connect economic regions and cross land transportation gaps. Major routes also involve the transport of raw commodities, including petroleum, grains, minerals, and food items. They form a continuum. meters in 2008 as opposed to 22.5

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