Bloomberg The crisis sparked by the shortage of cash in India following Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s anti-graft measure to ban high-value currency bills has hit the movement of goods in Asia’s third-largest economy. More than half of an estimated 9.3 million trucks under the All India Motor Transport Congress have been affected as drivers abandon vehicles mid-way into their ...

  Bloomberg Shipping companies are threatening to scrap their Pakistan services after the South Asian country increased tariffs at its largest port in a blow to an industry that is already grappling with global overcapacity and low freight rates. Hyundai Merchant Marine Co. is “seriously considering” dropping deployment of larger vessels in Pakistan, the South Korean company wrote in a ...

  Bloomberg The Philippines is training its sight on billions of dollars of investment from the Middle East. The Philippine Economic Zone Authority, which oversees hundreds of industrial parks offering tax perks, is identifying sites that can stock Qatar’s oil reserves and land that can be planted with crops for export to the United Arab Emirates after receiving proposals, Director ...