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This Week in Logistics News (February 11 – 17)

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From January 28 to February 4, a Chinese-operated high-altitude balloon was seen in North American airspace, including Alaska, western Canada, and the contiguous United States. Now that the SU military has retrieved the wreckage, new details are emerging. The average contract cost of shipping a container from China to the U.S.

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Doing Business in the United States

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The last two states added were Alaska and Hawaii in 1959. The climate is mostly temperate, but Alaska is arctic, Florida and Hawaii are tropical, and the Great Plains are mostly arid or semi-arid. Annual freight traffic equaled about 37.22 In 1776, 13 British colonies declared their independence and formed the United States.