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This involves a lot of long-haul transportation.” Mr. Eberle is the vice president of logistics and distribution operations at Molex. The 2010 Eyjafjallajökull volcano eruptions in Iceland, for example, caused enormous disruption to air shipments across Western Europe. They worked with selected top global logistics partners.
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