Share on email Share on facebook Share on linkedin Ever Given’s blockage of the Suez Canal was the tip of the iceberg for a multitude of challenges facing global logistics and supply chains, but there is an end in sight. The ship blocked a route for six days that around 30 per cent of global …
Share on email Share on facebook Share on linkedin The New Zealand Scandinavia Business Association (NZSBA) was founded 30 years ago, but the relations between the two goes back much further than that, with goods and services having been traded for over a hundred years. It is the purpose of NZSBA to continue this relationship …
Share on email Share on facebook Share on linkedin The only Argentine President to have paid a state visit to New Zealand is Carlos Saúl Menem who died this year on Saint Valentine’s Day in Buenos Aires, aged 90. New Zealand’s exemplary bi-lateral relationship with Argentina was kick-started by Menem’s 1998 state visit which, despite …
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Share on email Share on facebook Share on linkedin According to Economic Development NZ’s Dr David Wilson, New Zealand can emerge relatively unscathed from the COVID-19 pandemic if businesses focus on being connected, responsive, adaptive and fleet-footed in a joined-up NZ Inc. approach. Dr Wilson’s advice is particularly relevant for the export realm. As one …
Share on email Share on facebook Share on linkedin Geographically Sweden is one of the biggest countries in Europe with almost 100,000 lakes and over 200,000 islands, although less than 1000 of these are inhabited. Bordering Norway and Finland and connected to Denmark via a series of bridges, it sits at the centre of Scandinavia. …
Share on email Share on facebook Share on linkedin Since it was first established by Mike Moore as ‘TradeCom’ in 1986, New Zealand Trade & Enterprise (NZTE) has played a vital part in the quadrupling of New Zealand’s export trade (from 1986’s $21bn to 2019’s $83.6bn) and in the post-COVID-19 world, NZTE is poised to …
Share on email Share on facebook Share on linkedin 2020 will enter the textbooks for the size of its global downturn. The spread of the coronavirus across many countries prompted governments to introduce lockdown measures to contain the epidemic. These mobility restrictions and business shutdowns led to financial market turmoil, an erosion of confidence and …
Share on email Share on facebook Share on linkedin Covid-19 triggered a global hunt for personal protective equipment (PPE) and ventilators revealing a major weakness of the globalisation that guaranteed the availability of more convenient products. As far as PPE is concerned – e.g. face masks, gloves, goggles – this is used by healthcare workers …
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Share on email Share on facebook Share on linkedin Positioned at the crossroads of three key markets – the European Union, the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) and the Middle East, Romania is being appreciated both by private and institutional international investors as a safe and attractive trading location. With a recognised geo-strategic location, the …
Share on email Share on facebook Share on linkedin After emerging in Wuhan the Covid-19 virus has turned global trade on its head by disrupting critical supply chains from China to international markets in a classic example of ‘force majeure’ which the Oxford Dictionary defines as a legal term for “Unforeseeable circumstances that prevent the …
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