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Baltimore Bridge Collapse: An Opportunity to Reinforce the Importance of Supply Chain Resilience

Logistics Viewpoints

According to a widely cited framework by Christopher and Peck from “Building the Resilient Supply Chain” (2004), supply chain resilience consists of four dimensions: robustness, agility, redundancy, and flexibility. These dimensions are briefly defined and illustrated below.

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Panama’s Export Business Thrives

Now, That's Logistics

“The impact of this strong performance has been reflected in other parts of the world as well, principally in the ports of the East Coast of the United States,” AJOT reports, “which are in various stages of deepening and expanding their channels to meet the growing number of Neopanamax vessels now transiting the Canal.”.

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Whatever it takes: One woman’s story of persistence in West Darfur

World Food Programme Logistics

Photo: WFP/Isadora D’Aimmo Huda Abouh Mohamed Ali joined WFP in 2004 in West Darfur, where she is currently Field Monitor and Gender Focal Point. empty, because all the staff were busy at the distribution site. For example, in Ardamata we found a 13-year-old girl who became pregnant after being raped by three men?—?she

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Limping to war

Logistics in War

We needed increased readiness, enhanced mobilisation capabilities, more and better strategic lift, improved logistics, improved engineering capability, better mobility, improved long-range communications and an ability to win water, distribute fuel over the shore as well as improved stevedoring and medical services.’. 3] Galvin, T.,

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To 3PL or Not to 3PL?

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Strong organizations leverage these qualities to capitalize on the economic benefits of worldwide sourcing and distribution, while satisfying their customers' needs -- whether the customer is around the corner or across the sea. import volumes in 2005 will be 8 percent to 10 percent greater than 2004's robust levels, with no end in sight.

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