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Chinese Lenders Raise Concerns About $1.3 Billion Peru Port Deal

Supply Chain Brain

Peru’s government is trying to revoke a deal that granted China's Cosco Shipping exclusive rights to run the new Chancay Port.

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What is the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP)? Guest Post by Arun Gupta, PhD

Supply Chain View from the Field

In its current form the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is a potential free trade agreement (FTA) between the US and 11 Asia-Pacific (APAC) countries (Canada, Mexico, Peru, Chile, Japan, Vietnam, Brunei, Singapore, Australia, Malaysia, and New Zealand). The United States currently has FTA’s with six (6) of the 11 TPP countries.

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The reality of green energy: “green metal” supply chains won’t be able to keep up

NC State SCRC

Congo is an autocracy, but so is #4 on the list: China, which is home to aluminum, copper and lithium, while Indonesia sits on mountains of nickel, and Peru holds nearly a quarter of the world’s silver. It is unlikely we will move as quickly as governments and companies are projecting – the obstacles are just too great.

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Embracing the South American Ecommerce Marketplace

CH Robinson Transportfolio

Improvements are slowly occurring, thanks to increased government funding (but corruption hampers many efforts). Roads remain the primary means of transportation, but 60% are unpaved, hampering the speed of delivery by truck to inland locations.

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6 Answers for Your Top TPP Agreement Questions

CH Robinson Transportfolio

Essentially it is a proposed trade agreement between 12 countries—the United States, Australia, Brunei, Canada, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, and Vietnam. What is the TPP agreement?

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NAFTA Countries Remain Bullish on Trade

Material Handling & Logistics

More than 60% of business leaders surveyed across North America believe governments are increasingly taking a protectionist stance of raising trade barriers to defend domestic businesses. But even amid ongoing renegotiations of NAFTA, half of firms surveyed (U.S. According to the survey, less than one in ten (9%) U.S.

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This Week in Logistics News (August 13-17, 2018)

Talking Logistics

Technically the solution (by Maersk and IBM) could be a good platform, but it will require a governance that makes it an industry platform and not just a platform for Maersk and IBM. importers, [CBP Business Transformation and Innovation Division Director Vincent Annunziato] said. But as the U.S.