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A quiet reordering: how four mid-sized economies rewrote the rules of the global supply map

Over eighteen months, a coalition of trade ministries, port authorities and freight consortiums rebuilt a route network that planners had called untouchable. Our correspondents traced the paper trail across nine countries — and found a shift that almost nobody in the markets has priced in yet.

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