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...Shipping bottlenecks, truck driver shortages and power shortages in China have added to the supply disruptions....
...The two sportswear companies have moved most of their footwear production from China to Vietnam....
...Shipping ports felt the pressure of pent-up demand, resulting in logjams and rising prices: container shipping costs from China to Europe quadrupled at the end of last year....
...Deutsche Bank’s satellite-powered shipping tracker indicates that Chinese economic activity has now stopped contracting, and some economists are predicting a V-shaped recovery....
...The rise of south-east Asia as a dumping ground for plastic waste was fuelled by China’s decision to ban the import of plastic waste, along with textile and metal scrap....
...Their Flexi-Hex packaging is now sold to various industries that need to protect large items for shipping....
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...Amazon’s shipping costs have surged in recent years, with shipping losses reaching more than $1.2bn in the most recent quarter, a third-quarter record....
...shipping, Twitter’s latest tools include Lifewrecker and Misogynist Pro....
...By April 2015, Apple began shipping its watch, without ever negotiating a contract with Valencell, it is alleged....
...Glencore and Noble Agri, a joint venture of Noble Group of Hong Kong and China’s Cofco, belong to an elite tier of merchants shipping cotton from exporters such as the US and Brazil to textile mills in Asia...
...“With the slowdown in growth, those V-shaped recoveries are getting increasingly hard to believe,” said Mr Smith....
...In a separate case, New York-listed Diana Shipping said in December it was owed $4.8m for charter of the M/V Houston, which it had chartered for five years to China’s Shagang Shipping....
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...Additional cost reductions are achieved by avoiding hefty import duties and shipping fees, and stripping out expensive materials and features....
...As an example of DB’s capability, Mr Bulkley cites gears used in Australia for conveyors constantly moving iron ore on to trains for transfer to a port and shipping to China....
...“I would not call it a robust recovery, but we are forecasting a V-shaped recovery,” says Mr Lee....
...Today, with Johnson at the helm, the company is a global operation in its core industries of coal, steel, shipping, retailing, information technology and real estate....
...Sri Lanka’s strategic location, at the crux of vital shipping routes to south-east Asia, is undeniable and China has snapped up the rights to develop the island’s once sleepy Hambantota harbour....
...The average daily cost for the largest dry bulk vessels – known as Capesize and used mostly to ship iron ore from Brazil and Australia to China – on Thursday sunk 11.4 per cent to just $11,580 a day....
...Lloyd’s next Wednesday will roll out the carpet for King Harald V of Norway....
...Getting closer to China Inc. has brought its share of lessons for international investment promotion agencies. however....
...The US is already talking tough about China's currency and its exports of textiles....
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