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Transport logistics : past, present and predictions / Issa Baluch.
Publication details: Dubai : Winning Books, 2005.Description: xxi, p. 309 : ill., maps ; 26 cmContent type:- text
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- volume
- 9948031393
- HE 199 .A2 B35 2005
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Presents the history of supply chain and transport logistics by providing examples of ancient supply chains on the Nile, Hannibal pioneering alpine transport, the Great Wall and Forbidden City, Panama Canal, German Airlift at Stalingrad, D-Day, relocating the Temples of Abu Simbel, The Falklands War and the Dot-Com earthquake. Discuss the globalization of transport, the role of the freight forwarder, securing global trade lanes and humanitarian logistics. Predictions for the future include: transport machines of the future, new fuels, railways for Africa and the Middle East, training and professional development.
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