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Logistics teams transfer Chinese language employees to assist firms deal with Sino-US commerce tensions
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Logistics teams transfer Chinese language employees to assist firms deal with Sino-US commerce tensions

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By Tycoon Herald 4 Min Read Published January 12, 2025
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World logistics teams are dashing to relocate Chinese language employees as extra producers within the nation put together to increase abroad in anticipation of harder buying and selling circumstances with the US beneath a second Donald Trump presidency.

France’s CMA CGM, Switzerland’s Kuehne+Nagel and Germany’s DHL mentioned they have been redeploying Chinese language employees to Europe, south-east Asia and Latin America, locations which were chosen for a “China-plus-one” diversification technique, with a view to higher serve Chinese language clients overseas.

The teams, who assist shoppers handle their imports and exports, are responding to producers’ strikes to different low-cost manufacturing hubs as western patrons and politicians search to chop imports from China amid rising commerce tensions with the US.

CEVA, the logistics arm of CMA CGM, mentioned it not too long ago arrange “China desks” in Europe with Mandarin-speaking employees, together with gross sales and customer support specialists. It deliberate so as to add extra over the subsequent few years.

Kuehne+Nagel mentioned it had deployed Chinese language employees to Hungary and Slovenia lately, primarily to help expertise group Huawei with its European operations.

The logistics supplier, which has additionally relocated employees from China to Vietnam, Malaysia and Brazil, added that it was arranging a “local abroad” occasion in Shanghai within the spring, bringing in managers from varied international locations to allow additional relocations of Chinese language staff and conferences with Chinese language clients.

DHL mentioned it had been redeploying extra Mandarin-speaking employees over the previous few months, together with salespeople. They’d been despatched to south-east Asian international locations together with Vietnam and Indonesia, with plans on the way in which to increase the programme to markets akin to Hungary, Germany and Mexico.

“We have . . . [identified] a number of countries in the world that benefit from supply chain diversity, China plus one or nervousness about Trump,” mentioned John Pearson, world CEO at DHL Specific, including that using extra Chinese language employees abroad would “make sure we are getting our fair share of the [business] in these countries”.

Joanna Zhu, better China managing director at CEVA Logistics, mentioned using such employees abroad may assist Chinese language shoppers in higher “communicating and understanding local politics”.

Kuehne+Nagel added that Chinese language firms working overseas “need logistics specialists [who] speak the same language, who have a more proficient understanding of doing business with Chinese customers”.

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Logistics teams transfer Chinese language employees to assist firms deal with Sino-US commerce tensions

The strikes by logistics teams come as rising manufacturing hubs akin to Vietnam and Thailand are attracting a major variety of Chinese language producers, particularly these with labour-intensive companies, based on Kun Cao, deputy chief govt at consulting agency Reddal.

Within the first 10 months of 2024, China was the second-largest international investor in Vietnam, with investments price about $3.6bn, based on Reddal.

Regardless of Trump’s intention to goal items from China with tariffs, logistics executives mentioned they anticipated Chinese language producers to proceed exporting merchandise however from a wider vary of nations.

CEVA’s Zhu mentioned Chinese language firms and types would account for an more and more bigger share of enterprise for logistics teams as their operations unfold.

“This is a transformation that we will have to undergo,” she mentioned. “And this will happen very quickly . . . so our reaction will also have to be quick.”

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