of any new judges. as appeals can t be heard and ruled on, countries been able to ignore some of the organisation s rules. earlier i caught up with one of china s formerjudges on the wto appellate body. thank you for your time. it is great to have you. i want to make it clear that you are speaking to me from a personal point of view, not as a representative of the chinese government. so i really appreciate your time. let us start with this. for the past two and a half years the appellate body has not been functioning. it has not been able to function because china, the united states keep blocking judges. i want your opinion. do you think the appellate body will be able to recover? i feel very bad about the situation. the appellate body has done a wonderfuljob,
a huge problem, and the supply chain push back. we are seeing the port situation starting to improve. but we still have bottlenecks, like in north america and north europe. and some parts of asia as well. i would expect that as the supply chain starts to improve due to the health and covid issues, as the landside force comes back more effectively, as we get more resources from government and industry into more trucking and distribution centres, that by sometime the end of calendar 2022 we should see a return to normality, in terms of supply chain fluidity. if that happens, then assets could be deployed efficiently and effectively, therefore in 2023 we start to recover back to pre covid levels in terms of business performance. on that note, i appreciate your time, thank you. good luck. talk to you soon. thank you. it has been a pleasure. i hope you enjoyed
part of this, you are saying the needs to be more investment from government. indeed. also, to realise the pandemic is not completely finished. for example, in china we are still hoping that situation is improving, and that any stage we may get another flare up somewhere else. while it may be covid situation and health situation is hopefully going to calm down, we still have weather related issues, you sometimes have industrial relation issues that can also pop up, to do with trucking strikes, to do with labour strikes as well. we have various factors which could happen and bottleneck app, which would impact the overall supply chain. no room for any complacency. we need to work on this continuously to look at where these bottlenecks are, and free them up very quickly, because if they are allowed to continue they will have an overall knock on impact right through the supply chain which may take many months to clear. we know that the pandemic is not over. winter is not far round the corn
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alongside, then departing. if they have to reach one or two weeks, that creates a huge problem, and the supply chain push back. we are seeing the port situation started to improve. but we still have bottlenecks, like in north america and north europe. and some parts of asia as well. i would expect that as the supply chain starts to improve due to the health and covid issues, is that landside force comes back more effectively, as we get more resources from government and industry are more tracking and distribution centres, that by sometime the end of calendar 2022 we should see a return to normality, in terms of supply chain fluidity. if that happens, then assets could be deployed efficiently and effectively, therefore into 2023 start to recover back to pre covert levels in terms of business