We’ve become used to the idea of nearshoring as a major potential source of new business for industrial developers. The now-accepted narrative behind this conviction is that the pandemic served as a wake-up call for manufacturers and consumer goods producers. That in their quest for ultra-cheap, just-in-time delivery, they’d built a fragile house of cards. Any failure along the complex supply chain could result in having no goods to put on shelves. Or semiconductors to into cars.
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