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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Company updates, product news and industry insights from E21.
That Year We Didn't Lay Off a Single Person
In 2020 revenue fell thirty-eight percent, and at the worst point the account held barely …
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How We Were Forced into Video Inspections
With customers unable to enter China, we started video inspections in April. The first one…
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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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When the Pandemic Hit, Six of Our Machines Were Stuck in China
Six machines signed before Chinese New Year 2020. Once the truck drivers went home for the…
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We Flew to a Customer's Village to See How He Uses the Truck
In late October I flew to a village 40 km west of Mwanza, Tanzania, to see Mohamed's used …
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How to Inspect a Used Mining Truck: Tires and Frame Come First
In early August I looked at twelve wide-body dump trucks at a mine near Baotou and rejecte…
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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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Our Containers Got Rolled — Nine Days Stuck at the Port
On January 13, the carrier rolled our three containers; the next direct sailing was nine d…
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