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Frictionless Podcast: Apparel Production and Logistics in Central America

Supply Chain 24/7

On this Episode, Rosemary Coates, Executive Director of the Reshoring Institute, and Annie Paredes, Director of Customer Service at CBX Global Central America discuss the apparel industry’s shift to Honduras.

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Regionalize for resilience

Resilinc

And as recently as Q2 2022, factory shutdowns and logistics delays caused by China’s COVID policies and energy shortages continue to disrupt supply chains. manufacturer Parkdale Mills recently announced that it is building a multimillion-dollar yarn-spinning factory in Honduras. ROADMAP TO REGIONALIZATION. Initiatives by the U.S.

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The Key Coffee Industry Trends For 2021 & Beyond

Unleashed

For instance, 50% of respondents felt that logistics, container availability and port operations would all feel a negative impact of Covid-19. The world’s top coffee exporters. Source: Statista. Trends for coffee exporters. This is more likely to impact countries such as Ethiopia where cultivation and harvesting is largely done by hand.

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List of Top 65 Marketplaces Across the Globe in 2019

Vinculum

Mercado Libre is the largest marketplace in Latin America that operates in 18 countries – Argentina, Bolivia, Brasil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominicana, Ecuador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Salvador, Uruguay and Venezuela. The marketplace has over 160 million monthly visitors.

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Investing in regional supply chains

Resilinc

And developing a Pan American Manufacturing Ecosystem would also create jobs, build wealth, reduce the pressure to migrate, and promote political stability in countries such as Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras. and Canadian firms in Mexican supply chains and logistics. In similar fashion, the U.S.

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Webinar Recap: The Case for a Pan-American Manufacturing Ecosystem

Resilinc

To create more secure, resilient, and cost-efficient supply chains for the future, firms and government agencies should invest to expand manufacturing and logistics infrastructure in Latin America. “We It’s a tragedy that people are marching up from Honduras to the U.S. Logistics infrastructure needed.

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Q&A with Sidney Johnson: Veteran Supply Chain Practitioner and Resilinc Advisory Board Member

Resilinc

We operated in the Americas, so we spent significant time in places like Canada, the US, Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, and Honduras, but we also operated all around the globe. If you can keep it all within country, you can eliminate issues like logistics and footprint, border crossings, threats around customs, and border patrol.