Supply Chain Research

Supply Chain Edge: Turkish strategies, US exemptions, memory markups

December 5, 2025

– Supply chain regulations, tariffs and strategies are in focus this week. We have extended our series on reshoring to look at Türkiye’s opportunities to diversify beyond Europe as a customer market. Aside from reshoring decision-making, there are many uses for supply chain network mapping — i... Read more →

VW, Nestle Unlikely to Make Major Changes With Mercosur-EU Deal Far From Done

July 1, 2019

The European Commission and the Mercosur group of Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay have struck a trade deal after 20 years of negotiations. Bilateral trade between the two was worth 85.3 billion euros ($96.3 billion) in the 12 months to Apr. 30. The Brazil-EU pole accounting for 75.2% o... Read more →

Marfrig’s Japanese Beef Opportunity Faces EU and Canadian Competition

February 12, 2019

Uruguay’s beef exporters, led by Marfrig, have received approval to export to Japan for the first time in 19 years. That comes just as Uruguay’s exports of beef products had fallen by 4.1% year over year in 2018 and by 21.8% in January 2019. Yet, exporters won’t have an easy time after the sig... Read more →

DP World’s Ecuador Expansion Adds 40% to National Handling

September 25, 2017

DP World has started construction at its new deep water port at Posorga, Ecuador. The 750,000 TEU annual capacity facility will add 40% to the nation’s total handling, and should be ready for service by July 2019. Port handling in Ecuador expanded 7% year-to-date vs. three years ago, while in ... Read more →

Merkel’s $1 billion EU Export Opportunity for Uruguay

February 6, 2017

Chancellor Merkel of Germany has held out the prospect of a free trade deal with the Mercosur bloc ahead of talks in March, and highlighted Uruguay as a leading potential partner. Uruguay ran a $1.1 billion trade surplus with the EU in 2016, though its exports fell 2% and imports 14% vs. 2015.... Read more →

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Supply Chain Edge: Turkish strategies, US exemptions, memory markups

VW, Nestle Unlikely to Make Major Changes With Mercosur-EU Deal Far From Done

Marfrig’s Japanese Beef Opportunity Faces EU and Canadian Competition

DP World’s Ecuador Expansion Adds 40% to National Handling

Merkel’s $1 billion EU Export Opportunity for Uruguay