China

Noi Mahoney Sunday, November 3, 2019

Borderlands: Appetite for avocados stirs gang violence in Mexico; Corona beer to be brewed in China

Borderlands is a weekly rundown of developments in the world of United States-Mexico cross-border trucking and trade. This week: Appetite for avocados is fueling violence in Mexico; Hyundai picks Claudia Marquez as CEO in Mexico; Arconic closes Texas aluminum plant; and Corona beer to be brewed in China. Appetite for avocados stirs gang violence in […]

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FreightWaves Staff Thursday, August 29, 2019

PORT REPORT: China’s port throughput volumes rise despite trade war

New official figures from China’s Ministry of Transport show that the volume of containerized ocean freight, as measured in twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs) through China’s 49 main box-ports in the year continue to rise despite the Washington-Beijing trade tensions. But it seems that Vietnam might be benefiting from the turbulence, according to data found in FreightWaves’ SONAR database.

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