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Boeing and One Airline’s CEOs Shares Candid Perspectives on the State of Commercial Aircraft Supply Chains

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Supply Chain Matters highlights for our readers an on-stage conversation held between the CEO ’s of Boeing and Qatar Airways at Bloomberg’s Qatar Economic Forum. Dialogue with a Key Airline Customer This week, Bloomberg conducted the Qatar Economic Forum held in Doha. Akbar Al-Baker (video recording).

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Boeing Lands Significant 787 Dreamliner Aircraft Deal

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Significant New Order Received Commercial aircraft designer and manufacturer Boeing announced another significant aircraft deal this week. The new international air carrier is to be named Riyadh Air, which is reportedly procuring 39 Boeing 787-9 aircraft, with an option for 33 more. At the same time, the U.S.

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This Week In Supply Chain Management Tech- June 14 2022

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Touched upon was the joint development of an industry B2B platform for the procurement of pharmaceuticals, drugs and medical supplies enabled by embedded RFID tracking devices. In addition to the proposed merger with Gesher , the combined entity has obtained $80 million in capital commitments. auto makers including Tesla.

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Airbus Acknowledges Supply Network Constraints Impacting Wide Body Production

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This procurement further includes the aircraft being powered by General Electric engines, which is another boost to GE’s order backlog. In late May, we called reader attention on an on-stage conversation among Boeing CEO David Calhoun and Qatar Airways Group CEO H.E. Akbar Al-Baker (video recording).

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Freightos is going public…and how we got here

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We passed this cost on to the lighting fixture manufacturers, who no doubt passed on these costs to the consumers. At the same time one of our key strategic airline partners, Qatar Airways, is doubling down and investing in the transaction too. This is the kind of investor we need. I am proud to be part of such an outstanding team.