Three Years of the Pandemic: What It Left This Industry
The pandemic is nearly over, but three things stayed: online video inspection, cautious pa…
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Company updates, product news and industry insights from E21.
A Year of Settling in RMB
RMB receipts reached twenty-six percent of collections in Q1 this year, versus eight perce…
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No Containers, No Space, No People: The Three Shortages of 2021
A 40-foot container from Nansha to Mombasa went from US$1,800 to US$6,500. Empties are not…
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The Year Container Rates Went Insane — How We Got Through It
One container went from two thousand dollars to fifteen thousand. That year we changed how…
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Global Vision, Local Depth: A New Growth Model for a Traditional Trading Company
Now that the easy profits from information gaps are gone, how does a traditional export co…
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How Used Equipment Prices Moved in the Pandemic's First Year
In the first half of 2020, domestic used excavator purchase prices fell twenty percent, th…
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Tanzania Changed Its Import Policy Once — We Lost 140,000
A nine-year-old 50-ton truck crane sat stuck in the port of Dar es Salaam for 26 days. Dem…
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In Used Clothing Export, Grading Is Life or Death
One container, eleven tons of used summer clothing. The customer's inspector graded the A-…
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What Actually Determines the Price of Used Equipment
Two Komatsu 200s, same model, same year — one priced at 460,000, the other at 310,000. The…
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