Manik Mehta

As the Houthi attacks against merchant vessels in the Red Sea continue, with the latest Jan. 28 attack targeting a U.S. logistics support base in Jordan and a U.S. response expected to follow, importers, shippers and other stakeholders face nail-biting moments, unable to fathom what turn things would take the sea trade across this vital route.

Feb 02, 2024 • View Full Blog

DP World’s mega-container terminal at Port in Gujarat could boost external trade

Oct 17, 2023 • View Full Blog

During his four-day visit to New York in the third week of September, primarily, to participate in the 78th United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim availed of his presence on US soil to pitch for Malaysia as an attractive investment site for US companies looking to diversify their production and other business operations in Asia.

Oct 06, 2023 • View Full Blog

eCommerce holds the promise of high growth in the coming years...

Sep 21, 2023 • View Full Blog

Mario Cordero, the executive director of Port of Long Beach, welcomed President Joe Biden’s $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill, adding that “we have an administration who talks about ports”. While presenting the infrastructure plan, President Biden had announced that the plan would also include ports besides building highways and bridges.

Sep 13, 2021 • View Full Blog

The island’s ports play a vital role in sustaining Taiwan’s external trade, an important economic lifeline

Aug 09, 2021 • View Full Blog

China’s rise in the international arena has been meteoric: from a former obscure communist state that was once caught in the web of internal dissent and deep political turmoil, China has risen to become a global political, economic and military heavyweight whose actions and defiance of what is called “rule-based order” cause trepidations among much of the world.

Jun 04, 2021 • (0) Comments • View Full Blog

Thanks to Covid-19, the hordes of steel executives who descend on New York in June each year from around the world to participate in the Steel Success Strategies (SSS) conference, made a virtual appearance this year instead of “in flesh and blood”. The SSS-2020, which was scheduled to take place in June, was held Oct.26-28 this year in the virtual theater.

Nov 05, 2020 • View Full Blog

While there’s been a string of major trade show cancellations, Medica 2020 could be “the show of all shows.”

Mar 05, 2020 • View Full Blog

Wendy Cutler, the Vice President of the Asia Society Policy Institute and a former acting deputy U.S. Trade Representative, who had also negotiated the then U.S. led 12-member Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), could hardly conceal her disappointment when asked by this correspondent at a recent discussion at the Asia Society in New York to share her thoughts on the U.S. withdrawal from the TPP. She called it a “mistake”.

Feb 04, 2019 • View Full Blog