Shipping Archives - Asia Power Watch https://asiapowerwatch.com/tag/shipping/ an observatory of Asian economic power Thu, 16 Apr 2026 09:30:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://asiapowerwatch.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/cropped-logo-Asie-1-32x32.jpg Shipping Archives - Asia Power Watch https://asiapowerwatch.com/tag/shipping/ 32 32 How port disruption and risk at Hormuz affect global trade https://asiapowerwatch.com/how-port-disruption-and-risk-at-hormuz-affect-global-trade/#utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=how-port-disruption-and-risk-at-hormuz-affect-global-trade https://asiapowerwatch.com/how-port-disruption-and-risk-at-hormuz-affect-global-trade/#respond Tue, 03 Mar 2026 10:24:00 +0000 https://asiapowerwatch.com/?p=3591 On Day 4 of the US/Israel war against Iran, I shared comments with Jennifer George for Fast Company Middle East on “The $20 million-barrel question:…

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]]> https://asiapowerwatch.com/how-port-disruption-and-risk-at-hormuz-affect-global-trade/feed/ 0 UAE enters BRICS arena, balancing Moscow ties and Western pressures https://asiapowerwatch.com/uae-enters-brics-arena-balancing-moscow-ties-and-western-pressures/#utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=uae-enters-brics-arena-balancing-moscow-ties-and-western-pressures https://asiapowerwatch.com/uae-enters-brics-arena-balancing-moscow-ties-and-western-pressures/#respond Tue, 22 Oct 2024 09:08:32 +0000 https://asiapowerwatch.com/?p=3371 In this second article analysing what the 2024 BRICS Summit in Kazan, Russia, has in store, I shared comments with Tala Michel Issa for Arabian…

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]]> https://asiapowerwatch.com/uae-enters-brics-arena-balancing-moscow-ties-and-western-pressures/feed/ 0 China’s Logink platform as an economic weapon? https://asiapowerwatch.com/chinas-logink-platform-as-an-economic-weapon/#utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=chinas-logink-platform-as-an-economic-weapon https://asiapowerwatch.com/chinas-logink-platform-as-an-economic-weapon/#respond Mon, 22 Apr 2024 09:45:40 +0000 https://asiapowerwatch.com/?p=3284 In 2007, China began implementing the strategy encapsulating the new world reality that “data is the new oil“. Through the control of data and information,…

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]]> https://asiapowerwatch.com/chinas-logink-platform-as-an-economic-weapon/feed/ 0 China’s LOGINK digital platform: a weapon to bring about a new economic hegemon through data control, ownership, and manipulation? https://asiapowerwatch.com/chinas-logink-digital-platform-a-weapon-to-bring-about-a-new-economic-hegemon-through-data-control-ownership-and-manipulation/#utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=chinas-logink-digital-platform-a-weapon-to-bring-about-a-new-economic-hegemon-through-data-control-ownership-and-manipulation https://asiapowerwatch.com/chinas-logink-digital-platform-a-weapon-to-bring-about-a-new-economic-hegemon-through-data-control-ownership-and-manipulation/#respond Wed, 05 Oct 2022 08:47:26 +0000 https://asiapowerwatch.com/?p=2939 Since the article published on this website in 2021, on China’s drive towards creating a global smart supply chain integration system by way of its…

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]]> https://asiapowerwatch.com/chinas-logink-digital-platform-a-weapon-to-bring-about-a-new-economic-hegemon-through-data-control-ownership-and-manipulation/feed/ 0 Will future trade with China require digital integration with its Belt & Road Initiative? https://asiapowerwatch.com/will-future-trade-with-china-require-digital-integration-with-its-belt-road-initiative/#utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=will-future-trade-with-china-require-digital-integration-with-its-belt-road-initiative https://asiapowerwatch.com/will-future-trade-with-china-require-digital-integration-with-its-belt-road-initiative/#respond Fri, 02 Jul 2021 09:45:36 +0000 https://asiapowerwatch.com/?p=2043 With all the talk of supply chain dependency on China needing to “decouple” because of supply issues being exposed by the Covid-19 pandemic, very little…

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]]> https://asiapowerwatch.com/will-future-trade-with-china-require-digital-integration-with-its-belt-road-initiative/feed/ 0 What does digital integration mean for trade, logistics and supply chains with China? https://asiapowerwatch.com/what-does-digital-integration-mean-for-trade-logistics-and-supply-chains-with-china/#utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=what-does-digital-integration-mean-for-trade-logistics-and-supply-chains-with-china https://asiapowerwatch.com/what-does-digital-integration-mean-for-trade-logistics-and-supply-chains-with-china/#comments Fri, 09 Apr 2021 16:20:30 +0000 https://asiapowerwatch.com/?p=1664 This article is a summary of a chapter that this author contributed in the recently-published “The Digital Transformation of Logistics: Demystifying Impacts of the Fourth…

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]]> https://asiapowerwatch.com/what-does-digital-integration-mean-for-trade-logistics-and-supply-chains-with-china/feed/ 2 Hong Kong, a city of sorrow… https://asiapowerwatch.com/hong-kong-a-city-of-sorrow/#utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=hong-kong-a-city-of-sorrow https://asiapowerwatch.com/hong-kong-a-city-of-sorrow/#respond Thu, 04 Mar 2021 20:32:00 +0000 https://asiapowerwatch.com/?p=2553 On March 4, 2021, Asia Power Watch founder & editor Nicolas Michelon gave a lecture at the University of Central Lancashire on the economic rationale…

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