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Logistics Execs Split on Outcome of NAFTA Talks

Material Handling & Logistics

Executives in a new survey, 2018 Agility Emerging Markets Logistics Index, are divided about whether a new pact would help Mexico (24.3%); hurt Mexico (21.8%); or leave trade unchanged (25.7%). 2018 Index and Survey Highlights. China and India top the 2018 rankings and put more distance between themselves and No. GDP growth.

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Supply Chains Carry The Day at COP21

EcoVadis

They set a goal to be carbon neutral by 2018. In a second example, in agriculture in Bolivia, they work with a local NGO to develop a system for recovering quinoa husks (otherwise discarded) for use in exfoliating products. Electric cars are bringing a new threshold of low carbon transport.

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Embracing the South American Ecommerce Marketplace

CH Robinson Transportfolio

In 2018, Brazil’s busiest container cargo port handled 4.3 Only two countries in South America are landlocked, Paraguay and Bolivia. Its location provides easy access to the hinterlands via the Serra do Mar mountain range. million TEUs, compared with 3.85 million TEUs in 2017.

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List of Top 65 Marketplaces Across the Globe in 2019

Vinculum

Mercado Libre is the largest marketplace in Latin America that operates in 18 countries – Argentina, Bolivia, Brasil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominicana, Ecuador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Salvador, Uruguay and Venezuela. In 2018, 1,650 start-ups entered the market through the eMag marketplace.

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Trends 2019: Let the Prediction Season Begin

Enterra Insights

While populism had been ascendant in numerous countries before this — from Poland and Hungary to Bolivia and the Philippines — these elections brought such political philosophies to two of the world’s largest economies.” The upside of disruption: Megatrends shaping 2018 and beyond ,” EY, June 2018. [2] Footnotes. [1]

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Most desirable logistics location of Europe in 2018

Supply Chain Movement

Antarctica. Antigua and Barbuda. Azerbaijan. Bangladesh. Bosnia and Herzegovina. Bouvet Island. British Indian Ocean Territory. Brunei Darussalam. Burkina Faso. Cape Verde.