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Commerical Air Cancellations Quarantine Ebola Supplies

MIT Supply Chain

Normally this means airport-to-airport delivery within three to five days with UPS acting as a “freight forwarder” to transport the goods using space available on commercial (passenger) airlines or dedicated cargo flights to the destination. Asky Airlines : Stopped flights to Liberia and Sierra Leone on July 29.

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Viral Reaction: Zika and the Supply Chain

Elementum

African Minerals Limited in Sierra Leone had to stop operating as there is an insufficient number of working capital. Cargo shipments from Ebola-stricken countries going to Brazil had to wait 21 days, which serves as incubation period, before they could dock. In, ArcelorMittal S.A.’s In, ArcelorMittal S.A.’s