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The Consequences of Supply Chain Constipation

Enterra Insights

Goodman ( @petersgoodman ) and Stanley Reed report, “As the world absorbed the reality that the Suez Canal [would] remain blocked for at least several … days, hundreds of ships stuck at both ends of the channel … began contemplating a far more expensive alternative: forsaking the channel and heading the long way around Africa.

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World Food Day 2023

Enterra Insights

With households in emerging economies spending an average of 25% of their budgets on food — up to 40% in sub-Saharan Africa and 60% in Haiti — rising inflation is placing families in a desperate situation and perpetuating the cycle of generational poverty, especially the cycle of rural poverty.”

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The Rise of China-Africa Trade: Why Transportation and Logistics Should be Front and Center

BlueYonder

President Barack Obama’s trip to Africa in early July had many media outlets lamenting about the U.S. being late in recognizing the trade potential with Africa, and that the States had ceded the trade supremacy to China. Secondly, logistics infrastructure in Africa is terribly inefficient.

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Energy Crisis in Asia and Europe: The Supply Chain Impact

Resilinc

While in 2022 Pakistan received oil supplies from Qatar, Nigeria, Egypt, and Italy, this year supplies from Nigeria and Qatar are set to fall. Going forward, Pakistan plans to increase LNG supplies from Egypt to soften the impact of the shortages. Consider this: in January 2022, globally Qatar exported 7.2M tons and Nigeria exported 1.5M

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Optimizing Last-Mile Fulfillment for FMCG Businesses in the Middle East

Locus

predicted that the retail industry in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) is on the verge of a pivotal shift. “E-commerce Food delivery platforms like Deliveroo and Otlob in Egypt and Careem NOW in Saudi Arabia have also started offering groceries on their platforms alongside their roster of meals from restaurants.

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Logistics Execs Split on Outcome of NAFTA Talks

Material Handling & Logistics

25, second largest increase after Egypt, which climbs six spots. Chile (12); Colombia (26); Argentina (28); Ecuador (34); Bolivia (37); Paraguay (40) were little changed. --The countries improving their infrastructure and transport connections most were India, Indonesia, Turkey, Egypt, Iran, Pakistan, Argentina and Bangladesh.

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This Week in Logistics News (November 4-8, 2013)

Talking Logistics

.” Back in February 2010, I wrote a report highlighting how the MENA region is a growth opportunity for companies across many vertical industries, with countries such as United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, and Egypt leading the way. NAFTA trade reached $96.5 billion in August 2013, up 2 percent from August 2012.