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The Green Corridor: Cures from the Sky! Healthcare Distribution is Driving Itself Into a More Environmentally Friendly Direction

The Logistics & Supply Chain Management Society

Additionally, the superior speed vs. ground transportation is unquestioned. As a result Zipline’s business and reach in Africa is expanding. Singapore for example has allowed for delivery to ships in its waters. There is the ability to centralise the storage of blood for maximum efficiency. It’s not all about blood either.

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Viral Reaction: Zika and the Supply Chain

Elementum

Motorola, for example, refrained 500 night-shift employees from reporting to work on their Singapore plant and quarantined 305 workers as an assembly-line worker was diagnosed with SARS. 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.

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Seasoned Leadership in Action™ – An Interview with Wolfgang Lehmacher!

Supply Chain Game Changer

As President and CEO GeoPost Intercontinental, I was heading the global network and businesses in Europe, the CIS, the United States, Hong Kong, India, the United Arab Emirates, and Africa. In 2014, I accepted to support the World Economic Forum in developing the supply chain and transport industries. A role that I left end of 2018.

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Interoceanic Passages

Abivin

Global Maritime Routes and Chokepoints Maritime routes are a few kilometers wide corridors that connect economic regions and cross land transportation gaps. Major routes also involve the transport of raw commodities, including petroleum, grains, minerals, and food items. billion tons of cargo (as of 2020). They form a continuum.

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High Seas Troubles Affect Global Supply Chains, Part One: Security Risks

Enterra Insights

Near the Horn of Africa or the Strait of Malacca, pirates who had once seemed quelled have roared back, crimping sea traffic. patrol the Horn of Africa. Customers of maritime shipping firms not only want to protect their goods they also want to avoid higher insurance and additional shipping surcharges for cargo transiting the Red Sea.

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From the Desks of the Entire ShipChain Team – 9/25/2020

Shipchain

With that being said, we are in ongoing discussions and have active pilots and customers in Asia, Africa, and Central and South America outside of the US. We are very excited about the increased interest we have seen from Food and Beverage, Oil and Gas, Pharma, and High Risk/High-Value cargo companies.