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Bananas: The fruit of our labor

Your local grocery store is a wealth of logistics activities.  Have you ever looked at the banana you are eating for lunch and wondered where it’s been? Do you care? The process of getting that banana from producer to consumer is an interesting exercise in logistics and transportation.  The average banana travels about 4,000 miles before being pulled out of your blue & white metal “Logistics Superhero” lunchbox (with ubiquitous matching Thermos bottle). Bananas already come in a protective “container”, but bananas are delicate…

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Global Logistics For Dummies Coming to a Bookstore Near You

More than 2 1/2 years ‘in the making’, the SOLE-authored Global Logistics For Dummies (ISBN: 978-1-119-21215-7, John Wiley & Sons, $26.99, 336 pages) is scheduled to arrive in US bookstores on/about 11 December (today!)  With its addition to the Wiley For Dummies imprint (now in its 26th year), Global Logistics For Dummies (or ‘GLFD’ as the writing team fondly calls it) is designed to help companies and individuals weigh the pros and cons of expanding their logistics operations into global markets, and describes the pitfalls that can be anticipated (or not!)…

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September Is National Preparedness Month – Were/Are You Ready?

What a September it’s been so far for disasters! With raging forest fires in California; and not only Harvey, Irma, and Jose but what may well end up being the season of an increased number of devastating hurricanes and tropical storms in a number of years occurring one right behind the other, a large portion of the US will be caught unprepared. In 2003 the US Department of Homeland Security’s Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) created “National Preparedness Month” as a way…

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