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Honk, if You’re Driving Green This Earth Day

Arena Solutions

By suspending global transport and enforcing resident lockdowns due to the pandemic, the environment was able to briefly reset. Water pollution shrank or completely stopped on the beaches of Bangladesh, Malaysia, Thailand, and the Maldives. If the pandemic offered any benefits, it was to the environment.

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September and Q3 2022 Global Manufacturing Indices Enter Contraction Trending

Supply Chain Matters

In this developing region category, we want to make mention of countries reporting increased levels of demand which we believe are a likely sign that businesses are actively seeking alternative sourcing of supply network needs. The headline PMI posted a September value of 55.1 up from a value of 53.7 in August and 52.4

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August 2022 Global Manufacturing Indices- Declining Momentum Accelerating

Supply Chain Matters

The top three regions exhibiting PMI growth were noted as India, Australia and Thailand. From our lens, they telegraph the likelihood of more declining global supply chain activity levels extending to the end of 2022. On the positive side, rates of input cost and output price inflation again eased, similar to that reported for July.

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What Are B2B Marketplaces – And Should You Join One?

Unleashed

They compete with the likes of Hong Kong-based Global Sources, which has been around since the early 1970s and is now owned by UK-based Clarion Events. Another major global B2B marketplace is US-based Amazon Business, the B2B arm of Amazon founded in 2015. Thailand’s OfficeMate, founded in 1994.

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What’s Looming for Transpacific Ocean Shipments this Peak Season?

CH Robinson Transportfolio

In fact, JOC.com sites many Southeast Asia countries—including India, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, and Indonesia—have significantly grown their imports into the United States, anywhere from 13-37% compared to last year. This shows importers are shifting their sourcing locations to countries other than China. during this period.