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Doing Business in Brazil

QAD

Brazil has nearly 700 airports with paved runways, most of which can handle large capacity airplanes for moving freight quickly to and from all parts of the globe. Argentina and the Netherlands. Brazil ratified its latest constitution on October 5, 1988 and enacted a new civil law code in 2002. billion worth of goods.

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Ready For the Next Port Crisis?

Talking Logistics

Those same words were said when the ports were shut down for 10 days in 2002 , and again in December 2012 when 600 clerks went on strike , shutting down the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach for 8 days. The serious and negative impacts this dispute left on the economy demonstrates why we cannot let this happen again.”.

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Lessons to Glean From the West Coast Port Dispute

MIT Supply Chain

In 2002, a 10-day lockout on the West Coast cost the US economy an estimated $ 1 billion per day in the first week growing to $2 billion per day in the second week, and required a presidential intervention. First, over the next several years, new shipping options will become available to US companies.

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Top 25 3PL warehousing companies in 2020 (by revenue)

6 River Systems

Deutsche Post started acquiring shares of the company in 1998 and completed its acquisition of DHL by 2002, expanding the brand ‘DHL’ to its other services. million square feet of warehouse capacity for more than 7 million square feet of total space and 38 warehouses. The acquisition added nearly 5.4 Møller Mærsk Group.