Strength Through Diversification: Opportunities across Asia Pacific

FIGURE 4: PERSONS EMPLOYED IN WAREHOUSING BY MARKET (MILLIONS)

Source: Moody’s Analytics

There are also other nuances at play, beyond just depth of the labour pool which include varying talent skill levels. While this is considerably harder to measure, it stands to reason that mainland China’s longstanding experience and strength across manufacturing and logistics sectors will be hard to replicate overnight. Of course, this also highlights the need to drive productivity gains, as highlighted above, and rapidly invest in both capability building and automation.

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STRENGTH THROUGH DIVERSIFICATION: OPPORTUNITIES ACROSS ASIA PACIFIC