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Doing Business in Turkey

QAD

Turkey was founded in 1923 from the remains of the Ottoman Empire, and it adopted many social, legal and political reforms. Since its founding, Turkey has dealt with instability and military coups, although each time, the country returns to democracy. Manufacturing in Turkey. Turkey’s workforce consists of 31.3

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This Week in Logistics News (February 12 – 18)

Logistics Viewpoints

This year, with the LA Rams being Super Bowl champs, Good360 said it will ship thousands of “unsellable” Bengals-branded hats, T-shirts, hoodies, sweatshirts, COVID-19 masks, and scarves to struggling people in Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe and the Middle East. New wave of contracts will lock in much higher shipping rates.

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Bleak Peak 2022 Leaves Shippers Feeling Less than Thankful

Intelligent Audit

YoY Volume Lapses Worry Air Cargo Companies. A step away from a normal holiday peak season , air cargo volumes and rates have continued to fall. While demand remains high, the lack of volume points to a troubling lack of peak season increases for an air cargo industry already struggling with volatile fuel prices. Roughly 2.5%

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COP26: 5Zs that changed the world

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

came from trucks carrying cargo. 15 countries, Austria, Canada, Chile, Denmark, Finland, Luxembourg, The Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Scotland, Switzerland, Turkey, the United Kingdom, Uruguay and Wales declared that they will collaborate towards realizing 100 percent zero emission new trucks and bus sales by 2040.

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Supply Chain Experiencing High Rate of Terrorist Attacks

Material Handling & Logistics

The variety of attacks include targeting the oil infrastructure, hijacking and cargo theft through to contraband smuggling, extortion and kidnapping schemes. . Supply chain terror attacks occur at higher rates include Colombia, India, and Turkey. “It Over the past 10 years, an average of 3.1 attacks have occurred each week.

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Turkey Earthquake: Key Industries, Exports, and Sites Impacted

Resilinc

magnitude earthquake struck near Nurdagi, Gaziantep, Turkey. Turkey wasn’t the only country impacted by this severe disaster, either. struck near Uzunbag, Turkey ( The New York Times ). magnitude quake struck near Yesilyurt, Turkey ( The New York Times ). On February 6 th , 2023, a 7.8 Then, on February 27 th , a third 5.6-magnitude

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Some Supply Chain Management Principles are Timeless

Enterra Insights

It still takes a long time for cargo ships to transit the vast expanses of ocean. Only for turkeys.” eft , 1 February 2013. [4] Because we live in the Digital Age, people need to be reminded that most of the supply chain still relies on the movement of real objects through real space and time. Footnotes. [1]