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Doing Business in Malaysia

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In 1963, Singapore, Sabah, and Sarawak joined the Federation. The fledgling country was troubled by an insurgency, confrontations with Indonesia, the Philippine’s claim on Sabah and then Singapore’s withdrawal in 1965. The country moves over 2 billion mt-km of freight per year. . In 2017, Malaysia exported $187.9

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Interoceanic Passages

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This is due in part to the chokepoints they cause in the flow of global freight as well as the fact that they give people access to resources and commercial activity more effectively. It is standard procedure to unload some Mediterranean-bound ships and use the Sumed pipeline to move the excess cargo. meters in 2008 as opposed to 22.5

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Logistics Technology Trends That Will Dominate 2017

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Amazon alone hired 120,000 temporary workers over the holidays in 2016. In 2016, however, in a much tougher competition the robots were picking roughly three times faster at 100 items per hour. Self driving Vehicles In 2016 there seemed to be a new story every week about self-driving cars. China, Singapore, and Sweden.