The Analyst

All of a sudden (or at least so it seems) gone is the conviction that free trade is a ‘win-win’ solution that will make all countries (and their people) better-off.

This year, C&A, a large fashion retailer, started producing jeans in bulk, in the heart of Europe. Their new factory is carbon neutral, heavily robotized and digitalized and has an initial capacity…

September 2021, AIDDATA, a research entity embedded in a US university, and financed by various sponsors, published the study Banking on the Belt and Road, which contains an analysis of China’s international…

COMMENT: For all the right reasons, a lot of attention among port developers, policy makers and regulators is focused on the competition in the terminal and shipping markets and risks of the…

COMMENT: A stream of recent announcements suggests that a global market for storing and utilising carbon is emerging, writes Peter de Langen.

COMMENT: Maritime freight flows are the result of past supply chain design choices - if companies design global supply chains this results in global freight flows, writes Peter de Langen.