Re:Why billions of dollars of goods are stuck at sea
by gumby on Thursday September 22, 2016 @08:12PM
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That's what I meant by "multi modal": they put most of it on ships but buy up enough air capacity to make the early deliveries. Once the ships start arriving they can abandon the air.
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Re:Why billions of dollars of goods are stuck at sea
by ghostly_s on Tuesday September 27, 2016 @09:45PM
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Hmm, I've never heard this. All the coverage a few years back was that they use air for everything, so they can scale their production operations in near-real-time as demand fluctuates. That was supposed to be Tim Cook's whole crowning achievement when he was COO. Do you have a source that shows this has changed?