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BYD will sell EVs in Brazil

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His program calls for industries focused on a green economy and the need to modernize the automotive industry with hybrids. Brazil’s President-elect Luiz Inacio Lula da Silver has promised to reexamine and improve the nation’s environmental policies.

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Scotiabank forecasts 4% growth in global auto market in 2015 to 74M units, led by China

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The industry delivered 16.5 The Polish economy accelerated to more than 3% over the past year. Peru is likely to become the growth leader in 2015 alongside some acceleration in both public and private investment and improving household and business confidence. million light vehicles in the US last year. General Motors Co.

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Ricardo study predicts that BRIC automotive markets will be eclipsed by the “Rising-15”

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Ricardo’s Rising-15 automotive markets include: Argentina; Egypt; Indonesia; Iran; Malaysia; Mexico; Morocco; Nigeria; Peru; the Philippines; South Africa; Thailand; Turkey; Ukraine; and Vietnam. Nissan introducing new Datsun in Indonesia.

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Scotia Economics report sees double-digit increase in global vehicle production in first half of 2011; China to surpass European vehicle output this year

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Rising global vehicle sales and profitability have encouraged automakers to continue to increase vehicle production, providing the global economy with some positive offset to the dampening impact of the recent surge in energy prices, according to the latest Global Auto Report released on Friday by Canada-based Scotia Economics.

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IHS Automotive forecasts 88.6M unit global light vehicle market in 2015; 2.4% growth

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in 2014 as a result of industrial overcapacity and weakness in the real estate sector. million units—a 10% drop from 2013; with politics impairing Argentina and Venezuela, and the economic climate weighing down markets like Brazil, Chile and Peru, where it may take a few years for demand to recover to previous highs.

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Maersk and IBM launch TradeLens blockchain shipping solution; 154+ million shipping events already captured on platform

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Customs authorities in the Netherlands, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Australia and Peru are participating, along with customs brokers Ransa and Güler & Dinamik. We believe blockchain can play an important role in digitizing global shipping, an area of the global economy that moves four trillion dollars of goods every year.