Courtesy of The Wire China, a look at how disruption to shipping in the Red Sea is having big impact on routes vital to China: Just five months ago, China, fresh from its success in brokering a Saudi-Iranian rapprochement, declared that a “wave of reconciliation” was sweeping through the Middle East. Today, that pronouncement looks like a […]
Read more »Via Nikkei Asia, an article on one Japanese company’s revised strategy to compete with LG and Gree in Africa: Daikin Industries is bolstering its supply chain for home air conditioners in Africa, recently setting up a manufacturing site in Nigeria while also preparing to produce products in Algeria. The company had been expanding in Africa […]
Read more »Via Bloomberg, a look at how the kingdom’s emergence will make it even harder for the US and Europe to secure access to commodities: Saudi Arabia’s plunge into the world of mining has caught the industry’s attention as the nation prepares to deploy vast amounts of capital to diversify away from oil and gas. The kingdom […]
Read more »Via the Wall Street Journal, a look at how a U.S.-backed railway project is helping to challenge Beijing’s dominance in an unlikely country: In 2012, a Chinese state company finished building the train station in this central Angolan town and installed an illuminated computer-controlled board to show departure times and ticket prices. Then the contractors […]
Read more »Via Nikkei Asia, an article on Vietnam’s lagging North-Central region which is currently experiencing an investment boom: Momentum for investment is finally building for Vietnam’s North-Central region, with key factors from global business support to domestic political backing falling into place in an area that has lagged in development until now. Quang Tri is an […]
Read more »Courtesy of Bloomberg, a report on Zambia’s planned new railway: Zambia plans to build a new rail connection to link a Lake Tanganyika harbor to an existing line that runs to neighboring Tanzania, boosting trade with three other nations that share borders with the world’s longest freshwater lake. The southern African nation’s Transport and Logistics […]
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