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Forced Labor in Seafood Supply Chains

EcoVadis

Numerous 2015 media reports exposed slave conditions in the Thai fishing sector. Western multinationals linked to these practices through their supply chains into damage control and Western governments responded by imposing trade sanctions on Thailand. Background. In 2012- 50% of exports came from developing countries.

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8 Reasons Why Your Business’ Success Depends Upon Your Supply Chain

Logistics Bureau

Some of the ways by which poorly managed supply chain expenditure can inflate product costs are listed below: High transportation costs. In 2015, Nestlé discovered that fish products it was procuring from Thailand for use in its cat food brands were sourced from suppliers engaging in forced and slave labour.

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Doing Business in Japan

QAD

Though, as the country has relied less on nuclear energy and imported fuels, thermal power has become the country’s largest energy source. Japan is also enabling alternative power sources that should help the manufacturing sector. As befits an island nation, transportation in Japan is robust across all modalities. About 2.9%

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What Are B2B Marketplaces – And Should You Join One?

Unleashed

They compete with the likes of Hong Kong-based Global Sources, which has been around since the early 1970s and is now owned by UK-based Clarion Events. Another major global B2B marketplace is US-based Amazon Business, the B2B arm of Amazon founded in 2015. Thailand’s OfficeMate, founded in 1994.

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Cost To Serve – A Smarter Way to Improved Supply Chain Profitability

Logistics Bureau

Outbound transportation. Thus, if you find out that an expensive transport solution (courier for example) is routinely being used to deliver a low margin product to a customer, you’ll understand that much better if the end result for you turns out to be a loss. Marketing costs. Ordering and cash collection. Picking and packing.

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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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