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Supply chains

  • Sunday, 16 June, 2024
    Inter Ikea Holding SA
    Ikea examines US production boost amid global trade disruption

    Swedish retailer considers new factories in the Americas as movement of goods becomes costly and complex

    People shop in an Ikea store
  • Wednesday, 12 June, 2024
    Inside BusinessDavid Keohane
    Rise of EVs gives Toyota a supply chain quandary

    With the transition from traditional engines accelerating, is the automaker’s legendary supply chain a liability or an asset?

    A worker works on a vehicle at the Toyota plant in Bidadi, Karnataka, India
  • Monday, 10 June, 2024
    Rana Foroohar
    Charting trade chokepoints: a how-to guide

    Understanding what our supply chains really look like could help make friendshoring a reality

    Matt Kenyon illustration of two people shaking hands against a backdrop of pie charts and statistical graphs
  • Sunday, 9 June, 2024
    European companies step up efforts to decouple from China

    Move comes as Brussels increases scrutiny of goods from world’s largest export economy

    Containers from China are taken between terminals in the Port of Duisburg, Germany
  • Tuesday, 4 June, 2024
    InterviewAP Møller-Maersk AS
    Christmas rush risks new supply chain crisis, warns Maersk boss

    Container shipping group raises financial guidance for second time in just over a month

    Container stacked on a Maersk vessel
  • Monday, 3 June, 2024
    US-China trade dispute
    Chinese businesses target Vietnam and Mexico as trade tensions with US rise

    Investment increases in countries that offer alternative supply chain route to US

    Containers being loaded on to a ship
  • Wednesday, 29 May, 2024
    News in-depthHealth
    Patients in England ration drugs as supply crisis hits

    People with cystic fibrosis, epilepsy and diabetes among those struggling with medicine shortages

    Cystic fibrosis sufferer Lucy Baxter
  • Wednesday, 29 May, 2024
    News in-depthBoeing Co
    How Boeing’s troubles are affecting its suppliers

    Makers of parts for the US’s largest aircraft manufacturer wrestle with uncertainty over demand and production

    A Spirit AeroSystems sign
  • Tuesday, 28 May, 2024
    News in-depthNikkei Asia
    Tesla pushes suppliers to produce parts outside China and Taiwan

    Move comes amid rising geopolitical tensions and competition from Chinese rivals

    A white Tesla vehicle being manufactured inside the company’s Shanghai factory
  • Tuesday, 28 May, 2024
    The Big Read
    The mounting strains on global shipping

    Pirate attacks, Middle East instability and drought are causing disruption and congestion at the world’s ports

    Montage of commercial ships in Singapore Strait and a line chart
  • Sunday, 26 May, 2024
    Container shipping
    Shipping rates spike as businesses expect more Red Sea attacks

    Companies prepare to ship goods for festive season early as attacks by Yemen’s Houthis force ships to take longer route

    Person watches a container ship docked at port
  • Thursday, 23 May, 2024
    Gillian Tett
    Forget macro and micro, it’s mesoeconomics that matters

    Understanding networks properly will help us to better grasp how the economy actually works

    Efi Chalikopoulou illustration of a sphere of solid state circuits rolling towards an economist who is standing in its path.
  • Monday, 20 May, 2024
    Automobiles
    BMW and JLR imported banned Xinjiang part to US, Senate probe finds

    Carmakers did not immediately take action after being told of component made by company linked to Uyghur forced labour

    Mini Cooper on production line
  • Monday, 29 April, 2024
    Trade Secrets
    Autoworkers of the world, unite! (Ish.) Premium content

    US labour unions are using a German supply chain regulation to take on Mercedes

    A worker on a Mercedes production line
  • Saturday, 27 April, 2024
    Airlines
    Aircraft seat shortages hamper airlines’ efforts to upgrade planes

    Continuing supply chain bottlenecks come as carriers race to unveil new cabins to attract customers

  • Wednesday, 24 April, 2024
    Japanese business & finance
    Japan’s small EV battery suppliers feel the heat in race for scale

    Tokyo urges alliances to stay competitive but companies wary of giving up control

    A driver charges a Tesla in Tokyo
  • Tuesday, 23 April, 2024
    Mediterranean ports warn of overflowing storage yards in latest threat to supply chain

    Operators say ports severely congested because of Red Sea disruptions

    A cruise ship docked beyond a container terminal at the Port of Barcelona
  • Wednesday, 17 April, 2024
    Brexit
    Brexit has ‘exacerbated’ UK drug shortages, research finds

    Report from Nuffield Trust health think-tank highlights impact of leaving EU on medicine supply chains

    Pharmacy shelf of drugs
  • Tuesday, 16 April, 2024
    Renewable energy
    Supply chain strains pose threat to UK renewables targets, report warns

    Government-commissioned analysis outlines threats such as a lack of crucial parts and shortage of key skills

    Turbine blades manoeuvred into position in Brighton, England
  • Wednesday, 10 April, 2024
    News in-depthSemiconductors
    Taiwan’s chip industry heads overseas amid supply chain shift

    Investments elsewhere begin to pay off as Chinese market matures

    Visitors watch a wafer shown on screens at the TSMC museum at Hsinchu, Taiwan
  • Tuesday, 9 April, 2024
    Chinese politics & policy
    China and Russia pledge to work together to maintain ‘supply chain stability’

    Agreement to seek ‘more active’ convergence comes days after US warned Beijing not to help Moscow’s war effort

    Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov, left, and his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi in Beijing on Tuesday
  • Tuesday, 9 April, 2024
    Automobiles
    European ports turned into ‘car parks’ as vehicle imports pile up

    Chinese EV makers without sales networks or onward transportation among leading causes of congestion, say executives

    A car terminal at the Zeebrugge Port in Belgium
  • Tuesday, 9 April, 2024
    Taiwan
    Taiwanese groups consider overseas headquarters to hedge against Chinese attack

    Global efforts to secure supply chains put pressure on contractors to establish ‘alternative command system abroad’

    Taipei skyline
  • Monday, 8 April, 2024
    Aerospace & Defence
    European defence groups warn over reliance on Chinese cotton used in gunpowder

    Western countries’ push to strengthen Ukraine’s military has sent demand for ammunition soaring

    Ukrainian servicemen fire an artillery shell near the frontline area amid the Russia-Ukraine war in April 2023
  • Thursday, 4 April, 2024
    InterviewChinese business & finance
    Chinese robot maker says protectionism will not stop its march

    Shenzhen Inovance founder says automation tech is indispensable to global supply chains

    A robot at Shenzhen Inovance
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