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By: SwizStick

SwizStick — Thu, 01 May 2008 05:05:26 +0000

You don’t have to believe anything I said, or knowledgeable people within the trade industry like All Roads Lead to China, or all of my logistics contacts in China, or the container lines I use, or the International Herald Tribune and the New York Times. Perhaps you are better informed than all of those sources. We’ve all got our opinions and are free to express them . We’re not trying to “scare” anyone – just tell the facts as we see them and hopefully provide people with some useful information so they can make some informed decisions. And certainly manufacturers that don’t fall within the government’s target don’t have to worry about a thing. We certainly aren’t calling for panic, only that major importers who source from Tianjin/Xingang/Northern China should assess the possible risk any impact Olympic planning MIGHT have on their supply chain if ports/terminals/roads are affected and plan accordingly. I would think that to be the prudent, and smart, thing to do. Hopefully everything will be fine and run smoothly – that’s what everyone wants. But it’s better to plan smartly for a possible disruption than ignore it and expect nothing to go wrong.

By: rock

rock — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 02:39:14 +0000

I don’t believe what you said will happen, as my experience in China for over 15 years, only the major street in big cities, no matter Olympic or not, when important event comes, they always let half of the cars ( by odd/ even number) run in the streets, while transportation trucks were never allowed to run on these streets, there are certain route that let transportation trucks go through. As to “shutdown manufacturing”, are you trying to scare people? let me tell you, those that consumes huge energy and water — such as paper mills, chemical factories, and so on were give certain time limit to improve, this is required for the overall improvement of the environment there, not just for the Olympic.
For power shortage season –hot summer time, what they did was ask the manufacturing companies to switch their weekend days to weekdays to avoid the peak time for electric consumption — it never effect their allover amount of power sully. Do you know how many foreign companies there, if like what you said happens, “shutdown manufacturing”, “cut power and water supply”, then what would happen to these foreign companies? you should ask them first, let them tell you what the really is.
Recently, I’ve talked with several manufacturing company CEOs about the possible impact on manufacturing from Olympic, they expressed very little concern, what they said were, if something happen – electric, water shortage during Olympic – though the possibility is little, — will only around Beijing, but if you look at the new terminal 3 in Beijing Airport, and the efforts they did, if you go there talk with the business people, the government official, it’s hard to believe what you are talking about here. let’s wait for another 2~3 weeks and see.