By Rosemary Coates ·
January 27, 2022
It's now law that every importer of goods from China must certify there is no Uyghur content in imported products. Here are some tips to complying with the law.
By Patrick Burnson ·
November 4, 2021
To better deal with growing protectionism and the need for higher agility, logistics managers must incorporate regional designs into their global networks without diluting the cost or competitive advantages of existing relationships.
By MMH Staff ·
November 3, 2021
Almost €40 million investment for plant which will manufacture Dematic Multishuttle racks, welded components for automated guided vehicle systems, and conveyor belts and systems.
By Jeff Berman ·
October 12, 2021
While much attention has been paid to the backlog of container ships waiting to berth at the Port of Los Angeles and the Port of Long Beach (there were 73 anchored there in September), the United States West Coast is far from the only place dealing with these challenges. That was made clear in data published today by Chicago-based project44, which found that as of October 7, there were “around 386 ships (anchored and moored) off Shanghai and Ningbo—two of China’s busiest ports, of which, 228, were cargo and container vessels.”
By Jeff Berman ·
October 7, 2021
Following comments made by United States Trade Representative Katherine Tai earlier this week, regarding the White House’s new approach to the United States-China bilateral trade relationship, Logistics Management Group News Editor Jeff Berman caught up with global trade economist Dr. Walter Kemmsies, president of The Kemmsies Group, a provider of industrial and logistics real estate brokerage and consulting services.
By Jeff Berman ·
October 5, 2021
In remarks made yesterday at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, United States Trade Representative Katherine Tai provided details regarding the White House’s new approach to the United States-China bilateral trade relationship.
By Patrick Burnson ·
August 25, 2021
As we reported earlier in the week, when operations were suspended indefinitely last month at China’s Meishan terminal in the Port of Ningbo-Zhoushan, industry analysts were quick to detect a complex dysfunctional trend.
By Michael Einhorn ·
August 25, 2021
Manufacturing in China often conjures the images of factories, assembly lines, and workrooms running on cheap, inexpensive, and in some cases, slave labor.
By Patrick Burnson ·
July 9, 2021
The recent outbreak of COVID-19 in South China’s Yantian Port is causing yet another backlog in global supply chains, notes Dun & Bradstreet, a leading global provider of business decisioning data and analytics.
By Rosemary Coates ·
May 6, 2021
As trade relations with China deteriorated under the Trump administration, the Chinese have found other avenues to sell products into the lucrative U.S market, including via the new Otay Mesa crossing.
By Michael Einhorn ·
April 29, 2021
Manufacturing in China often conjures the images of factories, assembly lines, and workrooms running on cheap, inexpensive, and in some cases, slave labor. China’s labor practices may indeed be abhorrent. However, the bigger concern for America is the BRI, or Belts and Roads Initiative. I believe the labor problem is rooted institutionally in China’s BRI.
By SCMR Staff ·
April 13, 2021
A new report assesses the outlook for the India-U.S. relationship by examining four key dimensions that will prove critical in the coming decade: India’s role as a supplier, as a competitor, as a geopolitical player, and as a market.
By Patrick Burnson ·
April 1, 2021
Regarding this week’s furor over Xinjiang cotton— announcements from several foreign textile and garment companies, including H&M, that they would stop using Xinjiang cotton and call for a boycott of the product due to the forced labor of Uyghurs, hundreds of thousands of whom pick cotton under apparently coercive conditions.
By Patrick Burnson ·
March 26, 2021
Communist authorities have recently encouraged consumers across China to boycott companies that have publicly expressed concerns about forced labor and other human rights violations against Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslims in and from the northwest region of Xinjiang.
By Patrick Burnson ·
January 26, 2021
While the United States holds an early lead in the development and use of artificial intelligence (AI), China is mounting a strong challenge on several important fronts.