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What You Can’t See Can Hurt You – Is Your Supply Chain Really Transparent?

Logility

Supply chain leaders can only ensure compliance through the use of technology that traces every tier in their global supply chain and supports corporate social responsibility goals. Supply chains are opaque. Violations of workers’ rights are at an all-time high. Yet you may need to buy from these countries.

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China Restricts Exports on Two Chip Metals, Raising Supply Chain Concerns

Exiger Perspectives

The New Trade Controls Will Likely Prompt Companies to Identify Alternative Sourcing Methods China’s move to restrict exports of two metals used in chipmaking and other goods poses a new threat to global supply chains, and makers of consumer electronics, solar cells, and semiconductors could see disruptions soon. In the U.S.,

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Ukraine and the Supply Chain

Enterra Insights

” Some experts see that as a not-so-veiled threat of nuclear retaliation; however, Putin can disrupt national economies and create global chaos in other ways (both real and virtual). 7] In other words, the Ukraine conflict could turn into a global cyber-war. Ukraine Conflict and the Supply Chain.

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The New Silk Road: Have You Evaluated Your Freight Options?

TMC

Various macro forces are redrawing the global trade map, and one of them is China’s revival of the ancient Silk Road trade route. For shippers large and small, the multi-billion-dollar infrastructural project could bring huge opportunities for improving the efficiency of global supply chains—providing they do their homework first.

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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. It is also Spain’s third largest source of imports, after Germany and France. Those trains link Chongqing, the huge industrial city in south-west China, with Duisburg, and Beijing with Hamburg.

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Logistics Bureau Supply Chain and Logistics News Roundup, July 2022

Logistics Bureau

In this, the first of our supply chain news posts, you’ll find updates on the following current stories in global supply chain and logistics operations: The Ukraine war and its impact on global supply chains. A growing global warehouse capacity crunch. The grain blockaded in Ukraine. Fruit and vegetable shortages in Australia.

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2023 Sanctions Trends

Exiger Perspectives

As Russia attempts to minimize the impact of Western sanctions (with support from countries such as Kazakhstan, China, India, Turkey, UAE etc.) Accordingly, firms must be cautious of sanctions evasion methods with respect to Russia. The UK, EU and U.S. quantum computing, blockchain, artificial intelligence, bioprinting etc.)

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