News / Latin America trade may be flat, but there are opportunities – 'think outside the box'

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Despite the challenges currently facing Latin American trade, there are still opportunities for innovative and agile companies, delegates heard this week at Air and Sea Cargo Americas in Miami.

Trade in the region is facing numerous difficulties at the moment. Low oil prices have hit producing economies, such as Venezuela, hard, while a strong dollar has also affected the import market. The Brazilian recession, labelled many times as the  ’pneumonia that gave its neighbours a cold’, has also hurt the region’s ...