Description: Industry veteran Issa Baluch examines transport logistics innovations in great projects of the past, analyzes the challenges of today’s dynamic industry
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This book first presents ten case studies of historical projects that demanded careful transport logistics management. It surveys a wide variety of projects, some of them successes and some of them failures. Whether these projects were related to construction, engineering, military actions, or humanitarian relief, they all required transport logistics and placed great demands on logistics managers.
This book examines the impact of the 2008 recession on the industry, and present remarkable case studies of 11 countries, including six in Africa, that are developing infrastructure to move goods from their raw states through manufacturing, and to support imports and exports. Both the public and private sectors demonstrate ingenuity in their approaches to problem solving.
Baluch is a former president of the Dubai-based National Association of Freight and Logistics (NAFL); and serves on the Board of Directors of the International Federation of Freight Forwarders Associations (FIATA president, 2003-2005); and The International Air Cargo Association (TIACA). He is credited with pioneering the thriving sea-air combined transport freight business in the UAE and authored two books on logistics, namely, Transport Logistics: Past, Present and Predictions, which is available in four