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Resilinc publishes 2022 Half Year Report – Gridlock

Resilinc

But by March, China’s industrial production declined with quarantines and lockdowns. While prices for food and energy commodities have begun easing, the war and Western sanctions against Russia and Belarus have triggered extraordinary disruptions to oil and gas, nitrogen fertilizer, grains, and vital industrial gases such as neon.

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Petrochemical demand is up and prices are spiking

Resilinc

The last 18 months have been very good for petrochemical manufacturers—and not so good for their customers in a wide range of industries. Russia and Belarus are large [natural gas] producers, and uncertainty about sanctions has reduced their exports. Natural gas prices worldwide have also risen sharply, and in the U.S.,

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South Korea Reinstates Japan on List of Countries That Receive Preferential Trade Treatment

Supply Chain Brain

The country’s capital plans on further restricting technological and industrial exports to Russia and Belarus as a show of support for the United States' pressure campaign against Moscow.

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How Many Slaves Are in Your Supply Chain?

Talking Logistics

The company is also stopping production in Ecuador, Venezuela, Belarus and Pakistan by April 2014 (these countries scored low in a World Bank report that assessed countries on accountability, corruption, violence, and other metrics). And as I highlighted last week, according to an article in the Wall Street Journal , “Wal-Mart Stores Inc.,

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The Silk Railway: freight train from China pulls up in Madrid

Global Trade Management

En route it passed through Kazakhstan, Russia, Belarus, Poland, Germany and France before arriving at the Abroñigal freight terminal in Madrid. Those trains link Chongqing, the huge industrial city in south-west China, with Duisburg, and Beijing with Hamburg.

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SAP’s Report of Q2 and 2022 Half-Year Financial Performance- Some Cautionary Signs

Supply Chain Matters

They are described as Global Economic and Political Environment , which includes events concerning Russia , Belarus and Ukraine , and the continued Covid-19 pandemic. A mandatory regulatory section titled Risk Management and Risks identifies two broad categories of what are now described as business-critical risks.

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Logistics Bureau Supply Chain and Logistics News Roundup, July 2022

Logistics Bureau

As part of our ongoing commitment to keep our blog readers updated on what’s happening in the supply chain and logistics world, we’re launching a regular industry news roundup, which we’ll release periodically. When the price of oil skyrockets, so does the cost of producing everything, leaving no industry unaffected.