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      • Friday, 8 December, 2023
        Global pre-Christmas trade at risk from twin canal crises

        Drought in Panama and shipping attacks near Suez threaten supply chains at festive season

        A container ship is seen near Suez Canal Bridge
      • Wednesday, 6 December, 2023
        Apple Inc
        Apple moves towards India-made iPhone batteries in push away from China

        Tech giant wants suppliers to build key component in India as part of broader effort to diversify supply chain

        A customer holds newly purchased iPhone 15 smartphones at an Apple store in Mumbai, India
      • Wednesday, 15 November, 2023
        News in-depthBangladesh
        Bangladesh garment exporters say western brands not paying ‘ethical prices’

        Protesting workers shut factories after minimum wage increase fails to meet soaring inflation

        Police disperse garment industry workers who continue to protest on the street demanding a wage raise in Dhaka
      • Monday, 13 November, 2023
        Deforestation
        Food industry calls for more time to implement EU deforestation rules

        Producers and traders call for more details and say rules will fail to deliver environmental benefits

        This aerial view shows people walking on a deforested and burning area of the Amazon rainforest in Autazes, Brazil
      • Thursday, 9 November, 2023
        Indian business & finance
        Martha Stewart backs India outsourcing as companies rethink China supply chains

        Home goods entrepreneur says India is ‘nice fit’ for manufacturing her branded textiles

        Martha Stewart, right, with Welspun Living chief Dipali Goenka
      • Thursday, 2 November, 2023
        Container shipping
        Shipping industry steers container production away from China

        Push comes after pandemic highlighted reliance on manufacturers in world’s second-largest economy

        Containers are loaded onto a ship at Tien Sa port in Da Nang city, Vietnam
      • Tuesday, 31 October, 2023
        Aerospace & Defence
        Boom time for the $110bn a year industry keeping airlines flying

        Repair and maintenance specialists are working overtime as supply chain issues persist

        Workers perform maintenance work to a jet engine
      • Monday, 30 October, 2023
        Willy Shih
        What the ubiquitous syringe tells us about US supply chains

        Domestically made products like syringes currently cost more than those produced in China

        A BD needle ready for use
      • Monday, 23 October, 2023
        Airlines
        Aircraft rental costs soar as industry struggles with manufacturing delays

        Leasing companies have been able to increase their rates significantly for the most in-demand jets

      • Thursday, 19 October, 2023
        Trade SecretsAlan Beattie
        Countries are seeking economic security in a turbulent world

        The EU and others are pondering how to deal with value-chain disruption and geopolitical rivalry

        A worker in a clean suit assembles an ASML photolithography machine in the Netherlands,
      • Wednesday, 18 October, 2023
        Container shipping
        Drug gangs have infiltrated shipping supply chains, warns Maersk executive

        EU unveils plans for more co-operation between its ports in crackdown

        Customs officers search for drugs in a container in Antwerp, Belgium in July 2023
      • Wednesday, 18 October, 2023
        Special ReportUS Manufacturing
        Worries over skills gap overshadow US jobs boom

        Companies are working in-house and with colleges to boost technical expertise

        Employees wearing cleanroom suits walk beneath Automated Material Handling Systems (AMHS) vehicle robots moving along tracks on the ceiling inside the GlobalFoundries semiconductor manufacturing facility in Malta, New York
      • Thursday, 12 October, 2023
        Gillian Tett
        How rising conflict is reshuffling global supply chains

        Research by the Bank for International Settlements shows goods are subject to increasingly complex delivery routes

        Efi Chalikopoulou illustration of shipping containers of different sizes and colours tumbling down
      • Wednesday, 11 October, 2023
        Christopher Tang
        Why China ‘de-risking’ brings its own business risks

        Professor’s briefing: companies must consider the implications of shifting supply chains

        Chinese customers look at iPhones at an Apple store
      • Tuesday, 10 October, 2023
        News in-depthSemiconductors
        Taiwanese semiconductor suppliers target Europe’s next-generation factories

        Chemical companies in Asia have cornered cutting-edge chipmaking market as EU supply chain atrophied

        An employee of German semiconductor manufacturer Infineon holds a 300mm test wafer at the company’s plant in Dresden, Germany
      • Thursday, 5 October, 2023
        UK retail industry
        UK retailers urge ministers to align with EU on new ‘deforestation-free’ rules

        Leading supermarkets call on government to speed up legislation or put exports at risk

        A palm oil plantation in Indonesia
      • Wednesday, 4 October, 2023
        News in-depthNikkei Asia
        Malaysia aims for chip comeback as Intel, Infineon and more pile in

        South-east Asian country aims to regain semiconductor edge as companies seek supply chain stability

        A Malaysian worker in a chip company
      • Monday, 2 October, 2023
        Chinese business & finance
        German manufacturers resist trade tensions in China’s Mittelstand enclave

        A cluster of companies in a city near Shanghai faces rising competition and slowing Chinese growth

        Row of buildings with red-tiled roofs in Taicang
      • Sunday, 1 October, 2023
        EU economy
        EU payment rules shake-up will prompt price rises, retailers warn

        Brussels plan aimed at aiding SMEs will also lead businesses to source more goods from China, say industry groups

        A shopper pushes a trolley outside a Castorama store in Lille, France
      • Thursday, 28 September, 2023
        Renewable energy
        US warns green transition raises ‘complex’ China security concerns

        Beijing is prepared to weaponise its control of mineral sectors vital to renewable power, says energy secretary Jennifer Granholm

        US energy secretary Jennifer Granholm
      • Monday, 25 September, 2023
        Solar power
        Solar supply chains must diversify away from China, warns EDP

        Energy company turns to alternative supply sources after US import legislation causes delays

        Workers on a photovoltaic panel module production line at a factory in China’s Guizhou province
      • Tuesday, 19 September, 2023
        Markets InsightPaul Donovan
        Is China exporting deflation to the rest of the world?

        Profit margins in supply chains will limit the spread of downward pressure on prices through exports

        The Yangshan container port in Shanghai,
      • Tuesday, 12 September, 2023
        World Trade Organization
        WTO warns about fragmentation of global trade into allied blocs

        Countries are switching supply chains to less efficient exporters and risking higher costs and conflict, says report

        WTO director-general Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
      • Friday, 1 September, 2023
        Chinese business & finance
        Tech suppliers in China skip seasonal hiring rush amid weak demand

        Lack of usually lucrative temp work this summer also blamed on shifting supply chains

        Employees during lunch at a Foxconn plant in Henan province, China
      • Wednesday, 23 August, 2023
        News in-depthTechnology sector
        Supply chain shortages delay tech sector’s AI bonanza

        Server production hampered by tight stocks of Nvidia processors and other components

        A close-up view of Nvidia’s H100 AI processor
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