article thumbnail

Loser of the last quarter (Q3-2015): Costco

Supply Chain Movement

The two companies – along with other supermarket firms including Carrefour, Walmart and Tesco – are accused of selling shrimp sourced from farms in Thailand in the knowledge that such farms are routinely involved in human trafficking and forced labour.

Burma 60
article thumbnail

Interoceanic Passages

Abivin

In the current global economy, the closure of a maritime chokepoint would have significant economic ramifications due to the disruption of trade flows and even some supply chains (e.g. Gibraltar and Suez during World War II). The Kra Canal project proposes to construct a 102 km long canal along the Kra Isthmus's narrowest section.

Panama 52