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Forced Labour and Exploitation in Supply Chains

Savant Events

Countries that have passed relevant legislation include England and Wales via the Modern Slavery Act 2015, which has ‘transparency in supply chains’ that also extend to Northern Ireland and Scotland; and the Health and Care Act 2022 section 81.

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Prep Your Supply Chain for Super Typhoon Soudelor

Elementum

Update 8/10/2015, 06:16 PST: Soudelor Prompts Authorities to Issue Emergency Alert in China. Update 8/09/2015, 18:03 PST: Tropical Storm Soudelor to Hit South Korea on August 11. Super Typhoon Soudelor, the strongest storm system of 2015, is set to reach Taiwan and China tomorrow morning local time.

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China’s War on Pollution Will Change the World

Supply Chain Brain

China’s air pollution is so extreme that in 2015, independent research group Berkeley Earth estimated it contributed to 1.6 It can stretch from Mongolia to the Yellow Sea and often as far as South Korea. million deaths per year in the country. Emissions there contribute to the planet’s largest mass of PM 2.5

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Five Key Takeaways From JOC’s TPM 2016

Freightos

overtaking South Korea at 2nd spot for Asian supplier of containerized goods to U.S ( from IHS ). The amount of funding for transportation-focused ventures (spiraled up) to $14 billion in 2015. Transpacific Shipping in 2016. has a growing comparative advantages in some industries, like agriculture, and could export more.

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Potential Food Sector Ramifications of the Covid-19 Pandemic, Part 1

Enterra Insights

A study found a high demand for more takeaway food and home food deliveries, particularly in Hong Kong, South Korea, and Thailand. The pandemic has resulted in online food purchasing achieving a penetration threshold that was supposed to be achieved in 2015. These markets epitomize on-the-go lifestyles.

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Doing Business in Japan

QAD

There are 23 air carriers registered in the country, and they moved 8,868,745,000 mt-km of freight in 2015. China, South Korea, Hong Kong and Thailand. Australia, South Korea and Saudi Arabia. Japan has more than 175 airports; 142 with paved runways and most of them capable of handling freight planes and jets.

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Why Singles Day Will Become A US Sales Festival

Freightos

In a single day in 2015, Alibaba handled an average of $9.9 According to Adobe research, total US online spend on Black Friday and Cyber Monday in 2015 hit a paltry $5.8 China’s middle class surpassed the US’s middle class in 2015, and is larger than the combined middle class population of Germany, Spain, UK and France.