Supply chains

Why ASML is the most important tech company you’ve never heard of

Dutch semiconductor equipment company ASML’s marketing strapline is: ‘The most important tech company you’ve never heard of’. Such a claim…

How important is an anchor tenant to attracting further FDI to a location?

Securing the right anchor tenant can be hugely lucrative for a country or region’s economy. It not only generates significant…

How to work around supply chain disruption

The era of the easy, frictionless supply chain is over. Up until 2020, supply chains were incredibly resilient and efficient.…

FDI drivers in 2022: Supply chains

Before Covid-19 struck, supply chains were a business area whose efficiency and reliability were often taken for granted. Investors, business…

How supply chains became headline news

A strange thing has happened over the past two Covid-affected years. On top of the tragic death toll and lives…

Supply Chain Vulnerability Index shows wide gulf between US and China

Supply chains have been hit hard by the Covid-19 pandemic over the past two years. Now, as many countries in…

The relationship between trade and investment in the UK

The UK typically has a trade deficit for goods and a trade surplus for services, meaning it imports more goods…

Who will be the supply chain winners and losers in 2022?

Global supply chains have been in a state of disruption for the past few years due to a combination of…

Investors compete to control Middle East ports

Containers are stacked at the port of Jebel Ali, operated by the Dubai-based logistics company DP World, in June 2020.…

The ten busiest ports in the world by container traffic

[caption id="attachment_63508" align="alignnone" width="658"] The port of Shanghai is the busiest in the world and one of seven from the…