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Who’s Using Blockchain in 2020, and How?

Logistics Bureau

Working with a blockchain startup called BanQu, AB Inbev is using a distributed ledger solution to build a relationship of trust with some 2,000 farmers in Zambia that supply raw materials for its beers. The blockchain serves two primary purposes. The first is the one most commonly acknowledged as a supply chain benefit—transparency.

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May 2019 Automation Hero: Elsante Mnzava of Mkenga Group

EazyStock

My dearest and beloved late Father was from Tanzania in East Africa, my dearest and beloved Mother is from Sierra Leone in West Africa and I grew up in Zambia and attended secondary school in Swaziland—both in Southern Africa. Well, I am an All-African—and in every sense of the term even if I was born in California.

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May 2019 Automation Hero: Elsante Mnzava of Mkenga Group

EazyStock

My dearest and beloved late father was from Tanzania in East Africa, my dearest and beloved mother is from Sierra Leone in West Africa and I grew up in Zambia and attended secondary school in Swaziland – both in Southern Africa. So I am anchored to the continent in a unique way that I take every opportunity to boast about!

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Do Tariffs Really Impact China’s Global Supply Chain?

NC State SCRC

For instance China developed a large port in Angola, after which the race to extend rail lines and truck routes through Zambia to Congo to export cobalt from mines they also control was quick to follow. This influence can then extend to neighboring countries.

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New: Global Trade Map 2016

Supply Chain Movement

Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) and Preferential Trade Agreements (PTAs) are designed to boost economic growth through trade by opening markets by way of progressive removal of customs duties, eliminating or reducing trade barriers and tariffs, lifting restrictions on services and even through public procurement. Uzbekistan. Virgin Islands, U.S.