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Limping to war

Logistics in War

– Chief of Army LTGEN Peter Leahy, 2004 [1]. For example, it is widely accepted that the Australian Defence Force (ADF) had little logistics capacity to sustain a large second-rotation force after intervening in East Timor in 1999. Supplying War , 2 nd edition, Cambridge University Press, UK, 2004, p 236. [7]

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The beginning of the end for the Paper Bill of Lading

Shipping and Freight Resource

The TT Club subsequently wrote off its investments in Bolero in 2004. The research using a financial modelling exercise showed that the processing costs for a paper bill of lading were 3 three times much as an eBL processing and that the actual process cost for a single BL can vary widely.