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Petrochemical demand is up and prices are spiking

Resilinc

Russia and Belarus are large [natural gas] producers, and uncertainty about sanctions has reduced their exports. In Europe and Asia, however, Gupta estimates that price increases for PE will continue in 2022, rising 5-8% in Europe and 5-10% in Asia. Natural gas prices worldwide have also risen sharply, and in the U.S.,

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Logistics Bureau Supply Chain and Logistics News Roundup, July 2022

Logistics Bureau

Given that some Asian and South American countries have no compunction about continuing to do business with Russia, and that many companies in the West have trade relationships in Asia and South America, the sanctions have caught many Western companies’ supply chains in a stranglehold. But the problems don’t stop there.

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Startup Via.Delivery Brings BOPIS to SMBs in the U.S.

Multichannel Merchant

Via.Delivery has a total of 64,000 pickup locations, operating in Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Canada and the U.S. In Europe and Asia, alternate delivery locations at checkout are super well known, for instance, at grocery stores in France,” Nitikin said. The company, now based Menlo Park, CA, received a $2.1

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Beijing-Hamburg freight service completes maiden journey

Global Trade Management

. * Beijing-Hamburg freight service completes maiden journey by Staff Writers Hamburg, Germany (AFP) Jan 24, 2008 A goods train from Beijing arrived in Hamburg on Thursday after having crossed six countries in a journey organisers said could ring in a new era of rail transport between Asia and Europe.

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Doing Business in Poland

QAD

Poland’s bordering countries include Belarus, Czech Republic, Germany, Lithuania, Russia, Slovakia and Ukraine. Its prime location in Europe makes it an ideal location for shipping across Europe or Asia. The country joined NATO in 1999 and later became a member of the EU in 2004. km, about twice the size of the U.S. state of Georgia.

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China’s Historic Silk Road is Resurrected from the Rubble

Elementum

If completed according to plan, it will reintroduce ancient land routes connecting China with Europe via parts of Central Asia and the Middle East. This will include a rail route stretching from Chongqing, China, through Kazakhstan, Russia, Belarus, and Poland to Duisburg in Germany.

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