MIT Supply Chain

AUGUST 28, 2014

Nine pallets of caps, gowns, boots, and masks are sitting at the JFK airport in New York City awaiting the next available flight to West Africa. By consolidating cargo from various shippers, freight forwarders reduce the cost of air shipment significantly from express services, which is important when shipping multiple pallets.

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BlueYonder

AUGUST 6, 2013

President Barack Obama’s trip to Africa in early July had many media outlets lamenting about the U.S. being late in recognizing the trade potential with Africa, and that the States had ceded the trade supremacy to China. Secondly, logistics infrastructure in Africa is terribly inefficient.

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MIT Supply Chain

JANUARY 15, 2015

A shipment of medical equipment that arrived on January 12, 2015, in Monrovia, Liberia, from Miami, US, will enable 25 government hospitals to receive infection control training, helping the facilities which were partially or fully closed owing to the Ebola crisis to recommence regular operations. Airlink has received a grant from the Paul G.

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Elementum

MARCH 18, 2016

The quite recent pandemic that is Ebola, considered to be the worst since it was identified in 1976, caused over 4,500 deaths in West Africa. s iron ore mining site in Liberia, management declared force majeure and moved workers out of the country. Ebola Cuts Off Supply Lines. In, ArcelorMittal S.A.’s

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