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High Seas Troubles Affect Global Supply Chains, Part One: Security Risks

Enterra Insights

Journalist Andrew Freedman explains, “Geopolitical risks in the Red Sea and extreme weather in Central America are converging, jostling global supply chains fed by the Suez and Panama Canals.”[3] military to clean nuclear waste from the Arctic Sea, before melting ice opened new shipping possibilities. patrol the Horn of Africa.

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Doing Business in Thailand

QAD

Its bordering countries include Myanmar, Cambodia, Laos and Malaysia. Supply Chain Infrastructure for Manufacturing. Thailand’s transportation and communication pathways are well-developed for manufacturing supply chains. Japan, Hong Kong, Vietnam, Australia and Malaysia. and Malaysia.

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Anatomy of Agility

MIT Supply Chain

If there was a league table of desirable supply chain attributes, then “agility” would be somewhere near the top. But what exactly is supply chain agility and how can it be evaluated? Dr. David Gligor , Malaysia Institute for Supply Chain Innovation (MISI), is engaged in research to answer these questions.

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Interoceanic Passages

Abivin

In the current global economy, the closure of a maritime chokepoint would have significant economic ramifications due to the disruption of trade flows and even some supply chains (e.g. This rule persisted up to the Second World War and Malaysia's independence in 1957. The area has 2.5

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The World’s Most Vulnerable Supply Chain

Logistics Viewpoints

It also provides a good explanation for why the semiconductor supply chain is the world’s most vulnerable supply chain. These are embedded in industrial machinery, home goods (like refrigerators), toys, and advanced military devices. “We The semiconductor industry is a global supply chain. “A

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Apple’s China Problem

Logistics Viewpoints

I am getting questions from friends and acquaintances about whether the US’s supply chain woes are over. The people I talk to are surprised when I say supply chain challenges are not going to disappear any time soon. The US is greatly expanding its attempt to slow Beijing’s technological and military advances.

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