Quotes About Logistics

Today, barely 5 percent of all containers coming into the United States through our ports are scanned.

Ensuring ports are dredged is essential to securing America's place in global trade.

Investing in ports with partners is a very common model for us.

Larger Post Panamax ships are critical to securing America's position in a global market, and all our ports, including Jaxport, must be deep enough to handle them.

The Postal Service is huge - employing more than a half million people - and its history is long and complicated.

We need to ban all air-freighted food. Carrots from Holland. Potatoes from Egypt. It's got to stop.

It's so hard and impossible to shoot in L.A. The costs are astronomical.

It's not an easy job to think creatively and then also have to think logistically.

As we look at a future where we're going to have to double our freight capacity, how do you create a freight system that's integrated across the country when you have 50 different freight systems that are built one state at a time?

Fashion is not art. Fashion is a business that requires discipline and attention to detail and very organized systems of logistics and operations and processes. But even with the most smoothly oiled machine to manage the business, without creativity, fashion could not exist.

Trucking is the backbone of U.S. commerce. Consumers rely on the industry to move the parts for their cars, the food for their dinner tables, and, increasingly, the goods they order online.

Amateurs do tactics, experts do logistics, as we learn in the military.

I don't like fantasy where a king snaps his fingers and suddenly a whole army appears and goes off to war - he's got to feed them, he's got to pay them, he's got to take care of the camp followers and the gamblers and the people who cause disorder.

Without the merchant marine, there is no Walmart.)

Jon said, "Two hundred kilograms is four hundred forty pounds. That much C-4 takes up about eight cubic feet, which is your basic cardboard box." Amy

Maintenance and resupply are the backbone of any military.

Money expedited delivery.

Making stuff - that's easy. Supply chain, now that is hard.

Shippers and logistics service providers impose multiple requirements on their transportation carriers regardless of the product shipped. These include low and predictable price; short and consistent travel times; high departure and arrival frequency; high equipment availability; accurate and damage-free delivery; and ease of doing business with the carriers. No

Five modern freighters could have taken onboard all the cargo borne by the whole world's merchant fleets.5

These logistical advances played a more significant role in the European conquest of Africa than did the machine gun.

Well, trust me. Nowadays, babies travel with more crap than a rock band." He

With more than 67 percent of the Nation's freight moving on highways, economists believe that our ability to compete internationally is tied to the quality of our infrastructure.

Big Pharma prefers the model of mail order pharmacy where prescription drug orders are filled the same way that Amazon.com fills orders for books. To