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In Memoriam: Rear Admiral Stephen Kent Chadwick, USN (retired)

Enterra Insights

Navy quarantine around Cuba to prevent the Soviets from bringing nuclear ballistic missiles to the island. In October 1962, Gearing played a vital role during the Cuban Missile Crisis. The destroyer sortied with the Essex (CVS-9) anti-submarine group and helped establish a U.S.

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Logistics, Perpetually in Motion (Takeaways from Descartes Evolution 2016)

Talking Logistics

Addressed customs initiatives in the United States, Canada, The Netherlands, Cuba and Paraguay. New telematics software and hardware platforms. Enhanced transportation management for more complex planning and tendering requirements. Updated denied party screening for international ecommerce and ad hoc analysis.

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Biobased Economy Continues to Grow: USDA Secretary Announces NC State-Duke Study Results on Monday

NC State SCRC

Department of Agriculture, he is working toward opening Cuba to American agriculture exports and aiding economic development in small towns. When compared to the 2013 results (presented in the previous study), the direct value added contribution of the biobased products industry grew by 0.2 As head of the U.S.

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2023 Sanctions Trends

Exiger Perspectives

2022 highlighted the importance of sanctions compliance for crypto firms, with OFAC announcing its first ever crypto enforcement action against Bitrexx for apparent violations of multiple sanctions programs against Iran, Sudan, Syria, Cuba, and the Crimea region of Ukraine.

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Export Compliance 101

Arena Solutions

And we’ll find out later in this presentation how bad that can be for you. Syria, Iran, North Korea, or Cuba? And it’s really critical that you have these answers before the export. If you don’t have all the answers and you export it anyway, you really run the risk of a violation. So, what are the export determination factors?

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Manufacturing Pulse Report 2016

Supply Chain Movement

If they do decide to support omni-channel shopping, then a change of approach is needed to ensure their supply chain operations are evolved to address both the challenges and opportunities presented. >>Please >>Please click on the red button and fill in the fields to activate the green download button. Christmas Island.

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Corporate Leadership in Politically Troubling Times

Enterra Insights

In an insightful PowerPoint presentation, he notes, “More than 1/3 of the men signing the Declaration of Independence were business leaders (merchants or planters).”[2] Cuba, China)? ”[2] In the first half of the twentieth century, Mehlman notes, “Business leaders’ advocacy helped power the U.S.