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Analysis: Why Upcoming ILWU Contract Negotiations are Making Importers Uneasy

MTS Logistics

For the last two decades, twice the ports and labor could not agree on the terms (2002 & 2014) where there were significant delays in the availability of containers at ports. For example, for a small container ship between 0 and 4,000 TEUs, the unloading and loading time is three times higher than the most-efficient port.

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Supply Chain Data Visibility Paramount as Industry Lurches into Next Chapter

IoT World Today

Compare China’s share today with 2002, during the SARS epidemic, when China represented only 4% of world GDP. To reduce costs and shipping delays, and to optimize inventory, manufacturers like his need to know precisely when, for example, to manufacture boxes that its retailer customer will use to ship the products it sells.

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Logistics ‘unpreparedness’ and the International Forces East Timor mission in 1999 – strategic logistics and what went wrong

Logistics in War

This fact has been so widely reported that it could be considered rote – indeed the lessons of this operation have been regularly drawn upon as an example of the challenge faced by Australia in assuming coalition leadership, and the logistics responsibilities therein. There is consensus that the ADF was unprepared for the operation.

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How Supply Chain Strategy Misalignment is Killing Kmart USA

Logistics Bureau

While a number of factors are doubtless contributing to the Kmart demise, only a minor amount of analysis is required to identify supply chain misalignment as being one of the primary issues, which the company has never managed to correct. The Failing Kmart Business Strategy. The first Kmart store opened way back in 1962.

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Logistics ‘unpreparedness’ and the International Forces East Timor mission in 1999 – strategic logistics and what went wrong

Logistics in War

This fact has been so widely reported that it could be considered rote – indeed the lessons of this operation have been regularly drawn upon as an example of the challenge faced by Australia in assuming coalition leadership, and the logistics responsibilities therein. There is consensus that the ADF was unprepared for the operation.

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Asia-US Container Import Strategies Changing Despite Phase One Trade deal

ShipLilly

One of the early examples of upheavals in the industry started in 2002 when U.S. An agreement was reached towards the close of July 2002 and ratification took place the next month. When the contract was due to be renewed in 2008, there was concern that the issues experienced in 2002 would be repeated. West Coast Ports.