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...In August, Vietnamese steel group Hoa Phat announced the first delivery of containers from its new manufacturing plant in the south of the country....
...Much of the raw materials and components needed to produce new ships are no longer available in the US, thanks to the shrinking and outsourcing of the American manufacturing base, according to defence officials...
...Western businesses could struggle to loosen ties with China given the lack of alternative ports in other parts of Asia that are capable of handling today’s mega-container ships....
...In fact, the number of container ships waiting outside port continues to set record highs....
...Once ships from the manufacturing hubs of Asia do finally dock in the UK, they face a host of local logistical challenges that the British Chambers of Commerce has warned risk damping the economic recovery...
...For the jobs churn in the largely white, male, blue-collar manufacturing sector, we should look chiefly to technology....
...In addition, the US Development Finance Corporation would fund “a substantial expansion” of manufacturing capability for BioE, a vaccine manufacturer in India, with the goal of allowing it to produce at...
...capabilities through the state-owned Commercial Aircraft Corporation....
...Germany itself, the EU’s manufacturing superpower, is fiercely debating the idea of creating its own law, with ministers openly at odds....
...Outsourcing made even more sense, given that inbound container ships bearing Chinese goods were empty on the outbound and thus available to carry trash cheaply on their return trips....
...The Container Corporation of India is a major logistics company specialising in moving railway containers. The Shipping Corporation of India is the country’s biggest....
...Bremerhaven, a container port situated next to the Free Hanseatic city of Bremen, is still a free zone....
...In 2017, the company exported 90 containers of logs a week....
...The boss of US-based can maker Ball Corporation sees canned still water as the “next big frontier”. He may be outflanked by rivals whose packaging appears greener....
...But what’s unique about Unicharm’s experiment is the intention of creating an infinite recycle loop of diapers — manufacturing new diapers from used ones....
...By December, nearly 19,000 shipping containers of paper, plastics and scrap metal were sitting idle at Vietnam’s main seaports, unable to obtain customs clearance....
...As the country became a global manufacturing powerhouse in the 1990s and 2000s, its factories created a vast source of demand for raw materials....
...The first electric motors were used to drive manufacturing machinery a year after that. Yet the history of electricity in manufacturing poses a puzzle....
...Soon after, he managed to snag McDonald’s as a customer, which was looking for a container to hold its newly launched Big Mac hamburgers....
...Simplification of value added tax and lowering the threshold at which small businesses pay the tax has been suggested, as has reversing a decision to cut corporation tax....
...Now EIG is looking to expand the port and develop new businesses, from container terminals to power plants and a rail connection — many of which have attracted Chinese interest....
...Coca-Cola and its Palestinian bottling franchisee have opened the US beverage group’s first production plant in the Gaza Strip, marking a rare foreign manufacturing investment in the Israeli-blockaded, conflict-prone...
...Republican tax writers led by Kevin Brady, chairman of the Ways and Means committee, want to use the import tax to foster US manufacturing and deter inversion deals that US companies have used to move to...
...And the optimism is feeding through to the real economy, with a rise in manufacturing output....
...It is building industrial parks in an effort to establish itself as a manufacturing hub....
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