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Global Wide Manufacturing Output Strengthens in March 2024

Supply Chain Matters

India has again demonstrated the highest level of PMI growth and the report authors point to Greece, Indonesia, Russia and Brazil as demonstrating stronger rates of expansion. along with Vietnam, Thailand and Indonesia. Growth expansion has returned across China and the U.S. The reported March value of 46.1 reported for January.

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Emerging Supply Chain Trends – A Look at Evolving Finished Vehicle Logistics Amid Market Shifts and Trends

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

The subsequent rankings in the 2021 Production Statistics revealed that South Korea had overtaken Germany and Mexico, and Southeast Asian countries such as Thailand, Indonesia and Malaysia have moved up the world ranking for car production. The main destinations of vehicle exports were Europe, Middle East and Africa and South America.

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E-Commerce Takes Off in Developing Countries

Elementum

We examine the benefits and obstacles to e-commerce in Southeast Asia, South America, and Africa. In Indonesia, the number of web users jumped from 55 million in 2012 to 125 million in 2015. In 2011, Nigerian startup Mall for Africa, which ships American brands to Nigerian consumers, took in $17 million in 2014.

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The reality of green energy: “green metal” supply chains won’t be able to keep up

NC State SCRC

Congo is an autocracy, but so is #4 on the list: China, which is home to aluminum, copper and lithium, while Indonesia sits on mountains of nickel, and Peru holds nearly a quarter of the world’s silver. There are other risks as well: logistics in these regions (especially Africa and Chile). The losers?

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Logistics Execs Split on Outcome of NAFTA Talks

Material Handling & Logistics

The Index, in its ninth year, ranks 50 emerging markets countries by factors that make them attractive to logistics providers, freight forwarders, shipping lines, air cargo carriers and distributors. In the 50 country rankings, Brazil slips two spots to No. 9, falling below No.

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2020 Trends in Freight Transportation, and the COVID-19 Impact

Logistics Bureau

At the beginning of this year, all expectations were for rates to remain flat, perhaps even making air freight a viable alternative to ocean shipping for companies that wouldn’t ordinarily consider the option. The High Cost of Sustainable Shipping. Smarter Shipping Steams Slowly, But Surely, Ahead. sulphur content.

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Large Shipping Losses Have Declined 38% over Past 10 Years

Material Handling & Logistics

There were 94 total losses reported around the shipping world in 2017, down 4% year-on-year -- the second lowest in 10 years after 2014. In 2017 the downward trend of large shipping losses continued, according to a new survey, Allianz Global Corporate & Specialty's (AGCS) Safety & Shipping Review.