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In Memoriam: Rear Admiral Stephen Kent Chadwick, USN (retired)

Enterra Insights

He was appointed Prodesco’s President and Chief Executive Officer in 2001. Business Career and Philanthropic Activities Upon transferring to the Navy’s retired list in 1990, Steve began a second career in business. The leadership qualities he demonstrated during his years in the service were just as evident in the business world.

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Selecting a Supply Chain Technology Provider is Harder than it Seems

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

He joined the then P&O Containers and then subsequently P&O Nedlloyd from 1994-2000, of which a major part of the time was spent in emerging markets such as Vietnam, Cambodia and China, alongside the UK.

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This Week in Logistics News (December 9-13, 2013)

Talking Logistics

on the Automated Commercial Environment (ACE), which began in 2001, and it’s still not completed. Simply put, the countries in the TPP (which includes Canada, Japan, Vietnam, Australia, Singapore, and six other Asian countries) account for 40 percent of U.S. Just look at how many years and dollars have been spent here in the U.S.

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Where Does Cuba Rank in Logistics?

Talking Logistics

It also lags the average LPI for the region, as well as Vietnam, a country that mirrors Cuba in many ways, but is ranked 48th overall with an LPI Score of 3.15 — ahead of Mexico, India, and Brazil. Back in 2001, my friend and logistics expert Art Van Bodegraven traveled to Cuba as part of a logistics delegation.

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This Week in Logistics News (April 29 – May 5)

Logistics Viewpoints

But I also found it interesting that Dick Morley , the father of the PLC (programmable logic controllers to you non-geeks), organized geek pride days in New Hampshire as early as 2001. Why do I find this interesting? Well, ARC Advisory Group , the owner of Logistics Viewpoints, has been conducting research on the PLC market for decades.

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Spire and Gravity Supply Chain solutions helping restore flow of goods

Gravity Supply Chain

made great use of this innovation during the Vietnam War to ship supplies to soldiers, who sometimes even used the containers as shelters … This innovation made the modern globalized world possible. In 1956, manually loading a ship cost $5.86 per ton; the standardized container cut that cost to just 16 cents a ton … The U.S.

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Interoceanic Passages

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meters in 2001. China, Vietnam, Malaysia, Indonesia, Brunei, and the Philippines are among the countries that have staked partial claims to the Spratly and Paracel island groups. It is standard procedure to unload some Mediterranean-bound ships and use the Sumed pipeline to move the excess cargo. meters in 2008 as opposed to 22.5

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