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How Many Slaves Are in Your Supply Chain?

Talking Logistics

The company is also stopping production in Ecuador, Venezuela, Belarus and Pakistan by April 2014 (these countries scored low in a World Bank report that assessed countries on accountability, corruption, violence, and other metrics).

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Panama: The Logistics Engine of Latin America with Demo Perez

The Logistics of Logistics

Timestamps (00:00:02) Panama: The Logistics Engine of Latin America (00:03:02) Differing Regulations across Countries (00:05:41) Venezuela’s Market Decline (00:07:38) Cost Advantages of Panama over Miami (00:09:49) Panama’s History as a Distribution Center (00:16:36) Importance of Panama Canal for Global Trade (00:22:37) U.S.

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Logistics in Latin America: A Mosaic of Trends, Challenges, and Opportunities

Talking Logistics

See the recent election results in Argentina and Venezuela , and the issues facing Brazil’s president and economy , as examples. In both cases, you have to deal with the absence of standardization and with ongoing change, especially changes in regulations and government.”.

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Revenues Sagging? Here's How to Thrive in 2016

Demand Solutions

Think Venezuela, Ecuador, and Colombia. For starters, plummeting oil prices may be a good thing for you and me at the pump, but they’re terrible for the many nations in which the economy pretty much revolves around oil exports. Meanwhile, the strengthening of the U.S. dollars with the intention of trading with the U.S.

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Revenues Sagging? Here's How to Thrive in 2016

Demand Solutions

Think Venezuela, Ecuador, and Colombia. For starters, plummeting oil prices may be a good thing for you and me at the pump, but they’re terrible for the many nations in which the economy pretty much revolves around oil exports. Meanwhile, the strengthening of the U.S. dollars with the intention of trading with the U.S.

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Lessons From the Front Line: 3 Hospitality Supply Chain Horror Stories

AFFLINK

Xinia Camacho, reports Fusion , is a humble owner of a 20-room boutique in Venezuela. In recent years, the socialist country of Venezuela has been faced with a vanishing supply of consumer products, like toilet paper. When Politics Takes Away Your Toilet Paper.

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The History of the Shipping Container

Freightos

Grace Line had instituted the first international service, US to Venezuela, in 1962. McLean convinces the US Army that shipping containers provide a more reliable service (also eliminating dockside pilfering by Viet Cong sympathisers). Nascent Asian-US trade drives the return service. The beginning of the Asia-Advanced Economies trade boom.

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