WEF Report Brands Brazil’s Transport Infrastructure ‘Appalling’
pspan style=”FONT-FAMILY: ‘Verdana’, ‘sans-serif’; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial”(Transport Intelligence – John Manners-Bell)/spanspan style=”FONT-FAMILY: ‘Verdana’, ‘sans-serif’; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial”br /br /b style=”mso-bidi-font-weight: normal”Canada ranks 10supth/sup in survey ?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /o:p/o:p/b/span/ppspan style=”FONT-FAMILY: ‘Verdana’, ‘sans-serif’; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial”Ahead of its Annual Meeting of the New Champions 2010 in Tianjin, China, the World Economic Forum has published its emspan style=”FONT-FAMILY: ‘Verdana’, ‘sans-serif’; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial”Global Competitiveness Report 2010-2011/span/em.br /br /Switzerland tops the overall rankings whilst the United States falls two places to fourth position, overtaken by Sweden (2nd) and Singapore (3rd), after already ceding the top place to Switzerland last year. [Canada ranks 10th, see a href="http://www.weforum.org/en/initiatives/gcp/Global%20Competitiveness%20Report/index.htm" target="_blank"here/a.] o:p/o:p/span/ppspan style=”FONT-FAMILY: ‘Verdana’, ‘sans-serif’; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial”The report takes into account a wide range of different factors in assessing the level of each country’s competitiveness. The most relevant from a logistics perspective is ‘infrastructure’, although of course more generalised factors such as, ‘goods market efficiency’, ‘macroeconomic environment’ and ‘technological readiness’ have an indirect impact on the sector. Read more a href=”http://transportintelligence.com/briefs-feeds/wef-report-brands-brazils-transport-infrastructure-appalling/1945/”span style=”color:#0000ff;”here/span/a.o:p/o:p/span/p
Date: September 14, 2010
