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Who said supply chains are boring?: How would you ship 500 trees.

Supply Chains Rock

How would you ship 500 trees to Iraq? Basically, her organization worked with a nursery and collected 400 trees from Long Island, New York and 100 from California and had them shipped via DHL to the US troops in Iraq. Still not excited, well visit often and eventually you will be. Subscribe To. Monday, January 05, 2009.

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Supply chains on film

Supply Chain Movement

However, the made-for-TV movie drama Taking Chance (2009), which is based on a true story, recounts the complex – and for the accompanying officer often frustrating – task of transporting the body of an American soldier killed in Iraq back to his home town in the USA.

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Remembering 9/11

Enterra Insights

The tragic end of that war reminds us there is still work to be done in securing peace and prosperity for the world. Those efforts kept us initially busy in the world of national intelligence, but, over time, we were pulled in the direction of stabilizing Iraq, and that’s where our joint idea of Development-in-a-Box entered the picture.”.

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Looking Ahead: Ukraine Reconstruction

Enterra Insights

They explain, “As waste in Afghanistan and Iraq showed, reconstruction may fail if donors lack coherent strategies or projects are not sustainable or are prone to corruption. Footnotes [1] Megan Greene, “ Europe’s long-term security will rest on the reconstruction of Ukraine ,” Financial Times, 18 December 2022. [2]

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Emirates plans new flight routes to avoid Iraq

Logistics Middle East

UAE airline will stop flying over the country amid security fears.'

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Supply Chain and Logistics Predictions for 2016

Talking Logistics

Terrorism : The recent terrorist attacks in Paris and San Bernardino, coupled with the ongoing instability in Syria and Iraq and the spread of ISIS, have raised the risk for terrorism-related supply chain disruptions in 2016.

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Quality Improvement in Manufacturing: Relief for Operations Manager

ThroughPut

Trips to places like Iraq during 2015 made me realize how little people had, and how 90% of the world was in that state. Learning to focus on bottlenecks is the only way to maintain sanity. I had to simplify diet, dress code, hobbies, and even day-to-day activities. A lot of what I thought was “life” was essentially, a luxury.