El ministro de Fomento, Industria y Comercio (Mific) de Nicaragua, Jesús Bermúdez, anunció que el Gobierno de su país iniciará diálogos para negociar un Tratado de Libre Comercio (TLC) con China a finales de septiembre. Durante los últimos años, el país centroamericano se ha convertido en un atractivo para Estados como Rusia, Irán y, recientemente,...
China tiene un plan para acabar con la sequía en la provincia de Sichuan: lanzar dos drones que creen nubes de lluvia en el cielo. De este modo, pretenden solventar la falta de producción de energía que ha interrumpido las cadenas de suministro de varias empresas, entre las que se encuentran Apple y Tesla. La Administración Meteorológica...
El grupo chino Cosco, dueño de la concesión de la mayor terminal de contenedores de Valencia, ha puesto en marcha una línea de tren de mercancías que une su instalación en los muelles del puerto valenciano con Lisboa y el puerto de Leixoes en en norte de Portugal. Una línea con la que busca captar contenedores...
Chinese President Xi Jinping has reaffirmed the country’s zero-tolerance approach to Covid-19 even though “it might hurt the economy”. On a visit on Wednesday to Wuhan, the central Chinese city where the coronavirus was first detected, Xi said China could not afford to pursue herd immunity or “lie flat” – a reference to living with...
China’s export growth rebounded in May as manufacturing activity in Shanghai gradually returned to normal towards the end of its two-month coronavirus-induced lockdown, but any forward momentum is set to fade amid rising uncertainties, analysts said. Exports grew by 16.9 per cent last month from a year earlier to US$308.25 billion, compared to 3.9 per cent...
Hong Kong manufacturers are expecting to endure short-term pains caused by Shanghai’s coronavirus lockdown, but some are hopeful that a mid-May resumption of all port activity could help mitigate the impact. Some businesses have resumed production in Shanghai under a “closed-loop” system, where workers are required to live on-site and maintain zero contact with outsiders...
Shanghai’s automotive industry is teetering on the edge of a precipice, as a citywide lockdown amid a Covid-19 outbreak idled assemblies and parts makers that together produced one in every nine of the automobiles produced in China last year. Automakers may have to stop all production by May if the supply chain disruptions caused by Shanghai’s lockdowns...
The Australian government is to announce that a new port will be built in the strategically important city of Darwin after the current facilities were leased to a Chinese company, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation reported on Thursday. It’s unclear whether the new port would be solely for industrial use, or would be a facility that...
At present, the global economic and trade industrial landscape is facing huge adjustments, and the curtain is opening on the restructuring of the international industrial and supply chain. On March 28, the China Center for International Economic Exchanges released a report entitled “Digital Platforms Facilitate Participation of Small-and Medium-Sized Enterprises in Global Supply Chain Competition”,...
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, companies around the world have faced a lot of difficulties in their supply chains. This situation forced many companies to reconsider their corporate strategy, because for several years, companies have worked under the system known as just-in-time (JIT), which focuses on keeping inventory to a minimumusing flexible contracts at short-term...