Asia Pacific
DHL launches China-SE Asia freight rail service
DHL Global Forwarding has become the first international forwarder to launch a two-way rail freight service between Kunming, China and Vientiane, Laos. ➤
China
Asia Corner
Xi, Macron call for quick China-EU investment ratification
Chinese President Xi Jinping and French President Emmanuel Macron called for joint efforts in pushing for an early entry into force of the China-EU investment agreement. ➤
Asia Pacific
Emirates SkyCargo sees strong China demand despite corona virus
Emirates SkyCargo says it is seeing “good demand” for cargo import and export in the Chinese market, as the country reopens for business after the Lunar New Year holidays and despite the ongoing COVID-19 virus ➤
Airports
Lufthansa continues pared-down freighter services to China
Lufthansa Cargo plans on maintaining freighter operations to and from mainland China “as long as possible,” but at only at one third of its regular schedule, the carrier says in a customer update. While the ➤
Analysis
China designates 24 more cross-border e-commerce zones
China has designated another 24 cities as cross-border e-commerce pilot zones, in an effort to boost exports amid a slowing economy and the ongoing US-China trade war. These strategically located zones are designated to facilitate ➤
Comment
A trade war truce twinkles in the dark
The recent announcement, muted as it was, of a partial solution to the nearly two-year trade war between the US and China, while not the end of the the fracas, could and should be viewed ➤
Airports
BREAKING NEWS: Hong Kong International Airport site of latest protest
Over 1,000 demonstrators are currently staging a sit-in at the arrival hall of Hong Kong International Airport (HKIA) in protest against the recent violence in the Yuen Long district of Hong Kong. Flight attendants and ➤
Asia Pacific
Japanese trade suffering US-China body blow
Caught between the proverbial ‘devil and the deep-blue sea’ Japan’s trade growth is stalling as it continues to be squeezed from both sides in the ongoing US-China trade war. Japanese trade looks to stagnate in ➤
Comment
Trade wars bad for some, not-so-bad for ‘bystander nations’
The warning shots were fired in late-January when the International Monetary Fund (IMF) warned that a faster-than-expected slowdown in China could damage “systemic financial stability, as it lowered its 2019 projection for economic growth globally. ➤
Comment
Made in China? Increasingly not anymore.
The recently announced move by sports video camera maker, GoPro to shift part of its manufacturing out of China within the next six months clearly won’t have much of an impact on the gigantic economy ➤