Since my day job focuses on "The Americas", I spend a lot of time working on supply chain networks that begin or end in Latin America. That has its challenges in terms of available carrier capacity, north/southbound market dynamics as well as political and physical infrastructure. I'm always looking for additional information on this market, but usually have a hard time finding in depth content, especially in English. Having said that, I was very pleased today to get an email from Marcio Stewart of Latin American logistics.org informing me about this site.
Latinamericanlogistics.org contains numerous articles in English about logistics in Central and South America. Its very informative and one of the few sites I know of that focuses on this market. I'm more than happy to give a little "link love" to these guys. It's a site I will be visiting often.I'm especially interested in the NAFTA and CAFTA articles they host.
In due course, it is my plan to include some Latino expertise here at freightdawg.com. Those regions that some companies call "emerging markets" are going to be the commerce hotbeds of the next 50 years.
Eric
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Good to see your Blog, some interesting points on Latin America, we have just start offering global forwarding services in Mexico. We hope to provide air and ocean freight forwarding services. The new services are in addition to the transportation, distribution and cross border services that are already offered in Mexico. We have just started a Blog www.yrclogistics-blog.info and news feed www.yrclogistics-rss.info, what you recommend we do to increase our readership?
Posted by: Andy Martin | May 13, 2008 at 06:14 AM
More likely parts of Latin America will be a hot bed "in" 50 years at current trends, rather than over 50 years. For example, with the current USD - Real exchange rate, manufacturing of finished goods has moved out of Brazil at an alarming rate. Export of raw materials is now even a greater percentage of overall export and this doesn't create needed jobs in those regions.
This is in part contributing to the contraints in carrier capacity you commented on. North Bound Carriers are shifting to alternative trade lanes, SA-EU and SA to CHN. As you likely know, a number of the Asian carriers have pulled out altogether.
Affirming however that this is only part of the Americas equation. Costa Rica has their tech boom, and other countries such as Dominican and Nicaragua are positioning to take advantage of CAFTA; with US manufacturers conducting final assembly of parts made in China.
Posted by: Red | May 08, 2008 at 02:58 PM