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  • Friday, 23 February, 2024
    John Gapper
    The old empires of cocoa, coffee and tea are fragile

    Climate change and attacks on ships in the Red Sea are disrupting supplies of drinks from the global south

    Close up of boxes of Yorkshire Tea on a supermarket shelf
  • Wednesday, 21 February, 2024
    US-China trade dispute
    China circumvents US tariffs by shipping more goods via Mexico

    Data highlight difficulties in cutting Chinese exporters out of American supply chains

    Container ships moored at the Yangshan Deepwater Port in Shanghai
  • Tuesday, 20 February, 2024
    Container shipping
    Container lines ‘struggling’ with port congestion and ship shortages

    Carriers are turning up on the wrong days because of scheduling problems arising from Red Sea crisis, says sector chief

    Container ship
  • Monday, 19 February, 2024
    Trade Secrets
    Driving forced labour out of supply chains starts to get serious Premium content

    European companies are facing real pressure over the use of Uyghur workers in Xinjiang

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  • Monday, 19 February, 2024
    Fortescue Metals Group Ltd
    Fortescue chair slams Germany for U-turn on EU supply chain rules

    Berlin has withdrawn support for law that would punish companies for environmental abuses in distribution networks

    Andrew Forrest
  • Wednesday, 14 February, 2024
    Volkswagen AG
    US Porsche, Bentley and Audi imports held up over banned Chinese part

    Thousands of cars impounded after supplier discovers subcomponent from ‘western China’

    Montage of Porsche, Bentley and Audi logos
  • Wednesday, 14 February, 2024
    Moral Money
    Landmark EU legislation hangs in the balance Premium content

    Directive on corporate supply chains has been thrown into uncertainty

    EU flags outside the European Commission Berlaymont building in Brussels
  • Tuesday, 13 February, 2024
    US manufacturing
    Chinese-backed solar factory stirs suspicions in rural Ohio

    Local opponents raise fears over Beijing’s influence as US aims to reshore supply chain

    Illuminate USA’s 1mn sq ft solar panel factory in Pataskala, Ohio
  • Sunday, 11 February, 2024
    MBA
    Supply chains: when the chips are down

    Teaching case study: what US-China tensions mean for technology companies

    Employees working in a mobile phone factory
  • Thursday, 1 February, 2024
    Red Sea crisis pushes up delivery times for European manufacturers

    Freight rates and input prices rise as Houthi militants continue attacks on key maritime chokepoint

    The vessel, piled high with containers, passes buildings as it travels along the canal
  • Thursday, 1 February, 2024
    Xinjiang
    China’s Xinjiang aluminium boom exposes global carmakers to forced labour

    Abuse of Uyghur Muslims in supply chain raises acute tensions with west, Human Rights Watch shows

    Piles of aluminum ingots at a stockyard in Wuxi, Jiangsu province, China
  • Monday, 29 January, 2024
    Elisabeth Braw
    How a skills shortage could hit Ukraine’s battlefield

    Wars could erupt, unfold and be lost because we lack enough skilled defence workers to make ammunition

    A welder in a mask repairs military vehicles
  • Monday, 29 January, 2024
    News in-depthBrexit
    New Brexit border rules will hit UK supply chains, food industry warns

    British consumers risk higher prices after January 31 roll-out of checks on all EU products of plant and animal origin

  • Sunday, 21 January, 2024
    European manufacturers and retailers face ‘chaotic’ period after Red Sea attacks

    Rerouting of container ships has disrupted supply chains, increasing travel times and transport costs

    A ship transits the Suez Canal
  • Friday, 19 January, 2024
    CMA CGM SA
    CMA CGM hit by scheduling chaos as attacks disrupt Red Sea shipping

    French group is still sending some vessels through Suez Canal when accompanied by French navy

  • Thursday, 18 January, 2024
    Brexit
    UK faces post-Brexit border disruption at end of January, Labour says

    Party warns that new checks on animal and plant products risk delays to imports and increases in inflation

    Freight lorries aboard a DFDS cross-channel ferry
  • Wednesday, 17 January, 2024
    UK warns of growing risk to global supply chains

    Ministers tell businesses there are limits to what government can do to help

    Cargo ships on the Suez Canal
  • Tuesday, 16 January, 2024
    Special ReportThe World 2024
    Gillian Tett: Look back to judge chances of a global future

    Maybe it’s time to dust off John Maynard Keynes’s warning about taking borderless prosperity for granted

    John Maynard Keynes
  • Friday, 12 January, 2024
    Shippers turn to air freight to alleviate Red Sea crisis

    Mix of sea and air favoured to avert delays on Asia-Europe routes while limiting costs

    A pallet of freight is unwrapped near an aircraft: moving goods part of the way by sea before flying them on reduces overall airfreight costs
  • Wednesday, 3 January, 2024
    Moral Money
    What the drive for cleaner capitalism will look like in 2024 Premium content

    A crucial year for supply chain disclosures and carbon pricing schemes, while anti-ESG backlash evolves

    Emissions rise from the smokestacks at a coal power plant
  • Monday, 1 January, 2024
    Rana Foroohar
    Year in a word: De-risking

    A softer alternative to ‘decoupling’, which fell out of favour with the G7 this year

    Montage image of the word ‘De-risking’ and symbols to represent chips
  • Friday, 29 December, 2023
    Luxshare Precision
    China’s Luxshare expands Apple production capacity in deepening relationship

    Contract manufacturer taking over iPhone assembly factory from Taiwanese rival Pegatron

    A logo of Luxshare on a phone in front of a computer screen
  • Tuesday, 26 December, 2023
    Batteries
    European plans for battery supply chain face delays as US lures components producers

    Materials manufacturer Novonix issues warning as region struggles to compete with US subsidies

    Battery materials producer Novonix’s plant in Chattanooga, Tennessee
  • Saturday, 23 December, 2023
    John Gapper
    Rejoice that Santa Claus gives prime delivery to everyone

    Macy’s is right to recognise that express lanes and priority fulfilment are not in the Christmas spirit

    The flagship Macy’s store  in Manhattan
  • Wednesday, 20 December, 2023
    The FT ViewThe editorial board
    Global trade shudders over blockages in the Suez and Panama canals

    Geopolitical risk and climate change highlight the need for resilience in core supply routes

    A large container vessel is guided through the Suez Canal by a tug
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