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Fritz inducted into Logistics Hall of Fame

Logistics Business Magazine

The entrepreneur also pushed for initiatives to systematically train logistics personnel and evaluate humanitarian missions with the help of key figures. Fritz also founded the first association for humanitarian aid workers in the USA and established a consortium of companies that provide logistics experts and donate money when needed.

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Supply Chain & Logistics Education: Ask the Professors

The Logistics Academy

They not only have to present the models to demonstrate their understanding, but they also have to relate the models to real companies. Second, we study the flow of goods and services that are the ever-present relays of intermodalism. They must at once be technical and relational. But in real life, data is rarely given.

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Opinion: A vaccine may come for coronavirus?—?but there isn’t one for climate change

World Food Programme Logistics

Photo: WFP/Sayed Asif Mahmud While immediate steps can be taken with humanitarian aid to minimize loss of life from individual hazards, governments require longer-term strategies and systems to adapt to the realities of a riskier world. While a vaccine may be found for COVID-19, there is no vaccine for runaway climate change.