Enterra Insights
JANUARY 28, 2022
Furdyk says it all began with a phone call: “ As Andrés told Fast Company, Manolo Vílchez, head of a Spain-based solar-powered-stove company, was planning a humanitarian trip to Haiti to distribute solar-powered cooking equipment to citizens in the aftermath of an earthquake, and invited Andrés to join him.
Elementum
SEPTEMBER 8, 2017
As we reel from Hurricane Harvey and are still struggling to survive Hurricane Irma, here is how companies have been effected so far. Less damages were recorded in Haiti and the Dominican Republic; however, a major bridge on the island was reportedly destroyed. Hurricane Irma as seen from space. Photo via NASA.
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Supply Chain View from the Field
MARCH 13, 2015
Haiti grew all of its own rice, until the World Bank told them to take the tariff off – and once they removed the tariff – they could buy it cheaper from the US and Vietnam than they could grow it in the country. The problem became poverty was increased in Haiti, because they lost the income they had enjoyed from growing rice.
AFFLINK
OCTOBER 5, 2017
The company started the project in 2016 by collecting plastic waste on the beaches in Haiti. In fact, the company's CEO, Michael Dell, says that they have "diverted about 16,000 pounds of plastic from our oceans this year alone". At Dell, they are taking those words an extra mile by transforming ocean trash into laptops.
Elementum
SEPTEMBER 6, 2017
A number of American energy companies, such as Buckeye Partners, Chevron, and ExxonMobil , may take a hit should storm projections prove accurate. Currently making its way through the Caribbean, Irma is expected to make its way through Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, and Haiti on Thursday, September 7.
Kinaxis
NOVEMBER 11, 2016
by Joe Cannata With Hurricane Matthew, the most powerful storm to threaten the Atlantic Coast in over 10 years that has already brought severe damage to Haiti, the Bahamas and several Southeastern U.S. Trucking companies already warned customers trying to get shipments into the region that they should expect at least a two-day delay.
CH Robinson Transportfolio
JUNE 26, 2015
companies to once again afford the importation of a wide variety of products at an affordable cost. Customs and Border Protection agency (CBP) was instructed by Congress to automatically refund GSP duties to importers based on the GSP entry indicator that was transmitted at time of entry. This is expected to happen again. to be sold overseas.
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