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Latvia freight problems

Recently the situation at Latvia’s biggest sea ports and international railway freight services has deteriorated dramatically because of geopolitics. ...
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Posted on December 31, 2021

Falling EU imports to UK

Food and drink imports have been badly affected since 2019, with sales from the EU down nearly 11% in the nine months to September compared with pre-Covid ...
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Posted on December 30, 2021

UK food and drink exports 2021

UK food and drink exports fell by £2.7billion – a contraction of 15.9% – in the first three quarters of 2021, compared to pre-pandemic levels. Acco...
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Posted on December 29, 2021

UK food exports to China recovering

Global exports of whisky and salmon have started to recover fom adverse environmental factors, with sales of both products up 21% compared with 2020. All o...
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Posted on December 28, 2021

Shipping companies try to ease freight delays

Businesses in the USA affected by high logistics costs and freight bottlenecks are etaking on new strategies to ease supply chain pain in the new year. ...
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Posted on December 27, 2021

Vietnam Rice Exports

Rice exports in 2021 from Vietnam are forecast to fall by 0.5% earlier to 6.2 million tonnes. Income from rice exports in the year was expected to rise 5% ...
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Posted on December 23, 2021

China Covid increase may affect India’s diamond exports

Covid-19 cases are increasing in China and the government's lockdown policies are very severe. This may impact diamond exports from India as demand has not...
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Posted on December 22, 2021

Vietnam 2021 coffee exports down

Coffee exports from Vietnam in 2021 are expected to show a fall of 2.7% to 1.5 million tonnes equal to 25.38 million 60-kg bags, the General Statistics Off...
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Posted on December 21, 2021

Container shortage eases in India

A slower rate of Chinese exports and increasing Indian imports have eased the shortage of containers for freight in India. Waiting time for containers has...
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Posted on December 20, 2021

Pakistan Leather Exports Increase

The Pakistan Tanners Association Annual Report (2020-21) says that exports of leather and leather products from Pakistan increased by 8.86% from $765.35 mi...
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Posted on December 19, 2021

Romania Limits Waste Imports

Romania has reduced the number of border crossing points permitting recyclable waste imports to 15. the country to 15. The government wishes to combat the ...
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Posted on December 18, 2021

African Swine Fever: Stop EU pork imports says NFU Scotland | South West Farmer

African Swine Fever (ASF) is spreading in Europe. Farmers in the UK have asked the Government to prevent the import of pork from the affected countries. ...
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Posted on December 17, 2021

Cashew nut exports increase despite COVID-19

Cashew nut exports from Vietnam saw encouraging growth this year in spite of COVID-19 induced restrictions. There have also been shipping container shortag...
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Posted on December 16, 2021

China Food Imports

Food imports to China have surged recently years mainly because of growing demand from a huge middle class. Their value was $89 billion in 2019, according ...
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Posted on December 15, 2021

China import rules cause problems for exporters

Exporters of Irish whiskey, Belgian chocolate and European coffee brands are working hard to comply with new Chinese food and beverage import regulations. ...
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Posted on December 14, 2021

Freight ship collision off southern Sweden

Two freight ships have collided in the Baltic Sea off southern Sweden in the early hours of this morning. Two people have been reported missing, the author...
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Posted on December 13, 2021

China imports chocolate from Russia

China and countries of the Eurasian Customs Union trade bloc — consistsing of Belarus, Armenia, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan — were the largest importers ...
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Posted on December 10, 2021

Soaring exports from Turkey

Ports in Turkey are facing a major increase in workload as export sales continue to soar. After the COVID-19 pandemic hurt trade in spring last year, Tu...
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Posted on December 9, 2021

Russia Chocolate Exports

Russia is now in the world top 10 of chocolate exporters for the first time. Russia now exports more chocolate than Switzerland. Russia exported $839 mi...
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Posted on December 8, 2021

Freight trains on ancient Silk Road

With sea shipping is still unpredictable due to the global COVID-19 situation, many foreign buyers have shifted their orders to rail freight. Launched i...
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Posted on December 7, 2021

Abandoned Shipping Containers

When shipping containers are abandoned because of delays in the supply chain, the contents can deteriorate and lose value. When that happens, customers s...
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Posted on December 6, 2021

EU scrap exports to China halted

Scrap metal exports have been halted from EUn countries to China. China and the EU cannot agree on what constitutes 'waste' and 'recyclable raw materials'....
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Posted on December 5, 2021

Supply chain moving from seafreight to airfreight

Supply chain problems seem to be shifting from seaports to airports. Retailers in the West are racing to import products from factories in east Asia to sho...
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Posted on December 4, 2021

Turkey’s apparel exports rise

Apparel exports from Turkey increased by 25.72 per cent in the first ten months of 2021, compared with last year. In January-October 2021, Turkey's app...
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Posted on December 3, 2021

Georgia exports of hazelnuts

A total of 14,600 tonnes of hazelnuts were exported fom Georgia from August 1 to November 28, amounting to 66.8 million USD. During January-October 2021...
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Posted on December 2, 2021

SOEs boost exports in China

State-owned enterprises in China form part of many programmes currently being expanded to stabilize supply chains. The SOEs as well as private businesses a...
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Posted on December 1, 2021
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