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China Flexes Its Global Logistics Muscle

Material Handling & Logistics

For instance, Rachel Duan, industrial conglomerate General Electric’s chief executive in China, told the New York Times that she sees manufacturing in the area increasing when “the roads are built, the ports are built and the power plants are built.” At that point, she believes, “other opportunities will come.”.

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China and the global textile machinery

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Every day, thousands of products and clothing purchased are made from its knitted fabrics. Stagnation of deliveries of circular knitting machines (up 0.12% in 2017), and finishing machines in the “fabrics continuous” category fell by 2%. Deliveries to Iran soars by 445% from 11,000 in 2016 to 59,000 in 2017.

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