Today’s international container shipping industry encompasses hundreds of ports in more than 200 countries; nine trade routes that connect all continents; as many as 500 business services agencies assisting along each route, and more than 680 million containers....
China’s manufacturing sector is experiencing its usual series of upheavals and revisions, many of which will directly impact the activities of off-shore producers. For electronics parts and components producers, July 1st, 2016 saw the entry into effect of the...
China’s “Made in China 25” plan continues to direct national policies on future internal investments. In May, the national government announced three more plans to pump up its manufacturing sector, including increased encouragement of technological...
Labour Unrest Increases Recent reports out of China are dismaying. Its economy, long driven by the world’s largest manufacturing and industrial sector, is shifting gears to improve its internal consumer-based sectors to satisfy the demands of its rapidly growing...
If you think that only smaller Chinese manufacturing plants pose ethical or operation challenges to your product line, you’d be mistaken. Unfortunately, the immense size of China’s industrial sector means that factories of all sizes, shapes and capacities...
That “great deal” you got on a knock-off that works “just like” the name brand could cost you in ways you didn’t contemplate. In 2014, a 28-year-old woman was electrocuted by a faulty USB phone charger. Sheryl Anne Aldeguer was working on...