Thursday, June 2, 2016 · Patrick Burnson
When the consultancy, Armstrong & Associates, staged their “3PL Value Creation Asia Summit” last month in Hong Kong, analysts came away with some predicable observations and a few new takeaways.
Tuesday, May 31, 2016 · Rosemary Coates
Chinese manufacturing is maturing and low-cost, labor-intensive work is moving to other low cost countries like Vietnam, Myanmar and Indonesia while China takes on more advanced manufacturing.
Friday, April 1, 2016 · Patrick Burnson
The rankings also reveal a shift among the world's traditional manufacturing powerhouses due to the Asia Pacific region's rising influence and declining strength in European and BRIC countries (Brazil, Russia, India and China).
Tuesday, March 15, 2016 · Rosemary Coates
The One Belt and One Road Initiative is a development strategy and framework that focuses on connecting countries primarily in Eurasia. There are two main components: the land-based "Silk Road Economic Belt" (SREB) and oceangoing "Maritime Silk Road" (MSR).
Monday, March 7, 2016 · Patrick Burnson
Despite a slowdown in world trade this spring, the e-commerce logistics market is expected to grow at 9.69 percent through 2020, maintain analysts at Technavio, a leading market research company with global coverage, based in London.
Tuesday, February 16, 2016 · Patrick Burnson
The new center in China will join the global MIT Supply Chain and Logistics Excellence (SCALE) network, which includes centers in Colombia, Spain, Luxembourg, and Malaysia.
Thursday, February 4, 2016 · Rosemary Coates
Hoverboards are new and very popular products and this combination creates a frenzy of manufacturing activity at production sites in China.
Tuesday, February 2, 2016 · Patrick Burnson
This is a time we should be countering the threat of Chinese sea power by ensuring that we have a merchant marine capable of supporting our economic independence, as well as our military forces overseas.
Tuesday, January 19, 2016 · Patrick Burnson
IHS Global Insight expects growth in China to slow to 6.3% in 2016, fueled by modestly lower industrial growth and a larger deceleration in services.
Monday, December 7, 2015 · Patrick Burnson
For the last five months, supply chain managers indicated that they were losing faith in sustaining long-term distribution plans. Indeed, according to the Stifel Logistics Confidence Index, the decline in scores fell to its lowest ebb in the past three years.
Monday, December 7, 2015 · Patrick Burnson
U.S. multinationals engaged in Pacific Rim commerce appear to have a high threshold for risk, notes recent research done by Resilinc.
Monday, November 30, 2015 · Rosemary Coates
Chinese accounting, and all Chinese business operations for that matter, are different and somewhat immature as compared with practices in the Western world.
Friday, October 9, 2015 · Chris Carr and Dan Harris
A well crafted and reasonable liquidated damages provision is one of the best leverage tools out there for preventing your Chinese counterparty and supplier from breaching their agreements. That's the primary reason for having a written contract in the first place.
Tuesday, September 8, 2015 · Rosemary Coates
In the 1990s and 2000s, companies went to China out of fear of being left behind, not necessarily because they had made an informed decision based on data about the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO). Now it seems they are coming back for fear of being left behind again.
Tuesday, September 1, 2015 · Patrick Burnson
Drewry Supply Chain Advisors in London say ocean carrier M&A may be “back in vogue”
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