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Ocean Freight Performance in September 2021

Freight Plus

Vietnam is slowly opening back up but production will take time to ramp. traditionally buying significant amounts from Australia resulting in trade related issues), are all contributing to the blackouts. ?. Schneider National is also chartering vessels to help their customers with deliveries and delays.?.

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Can Australian Manufacturing be Brought Back Home from China?

Logistics Bureau

Inevitably ‘Made in Australia’ goods will cost more—sometimes even double or triple the price tag of a ‘Made in China’ equivalent. When China went into lockdown early in 2020, the dependency on outsourced production cost Australia dearly, with supply chains hit by significant disruption. The main effect of this offshore flight?

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Don’t Fret: Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement will not play havoc with the economic development of developing countries

The UCLA Anderson Global Supply Chain Blog

TPP is a unprecedented trade deal in history because it involves 12 countries (United States, Japan, Australia, Peru, Malaysia, Vietnam, New Zealand, Chile, Singapore, Canada, Mexico, and Brunei Darussalam), which accounts for 40% of global trade. (The trillion and US was second with US$ 3.9 trillion.) .

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Doing Business in Thailand

QAD

The 2017 estimated GDP is $1.236 trillion, between Australia at $1.248 trillion and Egypt at $1.204 trillion. Japan, Hong Kong, Vietnam, Australia and Malaysia. The working population is aging, adding to the potential skills gap and difficulty in attracting and retaining manufacturing workers. billion worth of goods.

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Companies Get Serious About Climate Change

Enterra Insights

Currently, there are a couple of such canaries on the world stage — Venice and Australia. Venice is flooding and Australia is burning. Everyone is familiar with the canary in the coal mine analogy. Both situations are attributed to and exacerbated by climate change. However, the increased flood risk touches every continent.”

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What is the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP)? Guest Post by Arun Gupta, PhD

Supply Chain View from the Field

In its current form the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is a potential free trade agreement (FTA) between the US and 11 Asia-Pacific (APAC) countries (Canada, Mexico, Peru, Chile, Japan, Vietnam, Brunei, Singapore, Australia, Malaysia, and New Zealand). The United States currently has FTA’s with six (6) of the 11 TPP countries.

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Supply Chain Secrets Going Global – But Where Should we Share Them?

Logistics Bureau

I’ve been taking them around the Asia Pacific region for several years, and the seminars have received a tremendous reception in Thailand, Vietnam, and of course, Australia. For anyone not familiar with the content delivered by Supply Chain Secrets , here is a quick overview: The Supply Chain Secrets Formula.