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Heavy equipment, agricultural products and pharmaceuticals. The ports account for more than half of container imports. Consumers are not likely to feel the effect right away and many businesses have tried to get ahead of this by stockpiling or diverting shipments to the West Coast and i spoke to the ceo of The Port of long beach and he said they had a record august but having said that, if the strikes go ahead and last for weeks, they could lead to shortages and high prices for consumers. Who; high prices for consumers. Why are we in high prices for consumers. Why are we in this high prices for consumers. Why are we in this position . The entire east Coast Port Infrastructure could be shut down by this . Why have the talks broken down . The dock Workers Union talks ....
we produce food for the people and we take care of the nature, so we deserved to be treated with decency. yet because of free trade agreement and market deregulation, the prices we are being paid for products is being lower and lower, while our cost of production are increasing. so it is not ok any more, we want fair revenues, and for this we need to stop agreements and we need market regulation and minimum pricing. well let s talk now to sylvain chabe ferret, who is head of the environmental economics group at the toulouse school of economics. farmers feel strongly what kind of impact is this having on french economy and prices in the shops? well, thanks so much for having me. i am not sure we are still having a lot of impacts for now, but what i would like to do is maybe take a step back to understand why this is happening now, and why it is happening now, and why it is happening in general, if you allow me. {iii happening in general, if you allow me. u, , happening in ge ....
like shareholdings and some other subsidiary companies, those assets are very readily accessible. the issue is that most of the company s assets are onshore in mainland china, they are land, properties the company had 1,200 projects at different stages of development as of 2022. but those assets are going to be tricky to access. in theory, hong kong and mainland have a 2021 arrangement for resolving insolvent companies like evergrande, but in practice what needs to happen is mainland courts will need to recognise this liquidation, but they also need co operation from local governments. i think it will be very tricky. this is just one stage in what is likely to be still quite prolonged process if the off shore creditors wish to get hold of ultimately money which comes from mainland property assets. let s talk to hong bo, professor of financial economics in the school of finance and management at london s soas university. the chinese government is unlikely to allow ever ....
look at what it is like to take over a long running family business. time now to get down to business. we begin with energy. it will be clean and safe and power 1.8 million homes in the north of england and the midlands. that is the plan presented by the uk government and the netherlands who have announced the world s largest multiuse electricity powerline built under the north sea. the will connect the uk in the netherlands with offshore wind farms providing energy to britain aiming to reduce household bills. this announcement comes at the start of the second north sea summit which kicks off today in belgium, the founding countries are belgium, denmark and the netherlands will be joined by france, uk ireland norway and luxembourg and the largest ever coalition around energy in the northeast off let s talk to jess ralston head of energy at the energy and climate intelligence unit. first of all, uk government is saying it s the s largest of its kind, powerline is delive ....