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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. Infrastructure and transport rankings fell for Kazakhstan, Sri Lanka, Colombia, Brazil, Thailand and Kuwait. --In GDP growth.

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This Week in Logistics News (May 29 – June 4)

Logistics Viewpoints

Sri Lanka braces for oil spill from sunken cargo ship. Earlier this month, consulting firm AlixPartners said the global semiconductor chip shortage will cost automakers $110 billion in lost revenues this year, as it forecast the crisis will hit the production of 3.9 Amazon is installing “meditation booths” in warehouses.