Word: bottlenecks
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Standard as such hardware and experience may be in other parts of the world, it is in short supply in Southeast Asia, as U.S. military logistics experts have discovered to their chagrin. Lusteveco tugs and barges helped break the Saigon shipping bottleneck, and the company is bidding for similar work at Thailand's choked port of Bangkok. Still, happy as he is to have the U.S. military business (which now accounts for 12% of sales), Fernandez finds that he is hard-pressed to "accommodate that Viet Nam effort," looks for the day when he can "bring back...
...expand, its harbor area is a cramped compound of 1,000-year-old streets and hopelessly antiquated facilities. Operations are further hampered by some of the world's slowest-footed longshoremen as well as a bewildering maze of handling charges, tariffs and hidden fees. So costly a bottleneck has Genoa become that it now handles barely half as much cargo (37 million tons a year) as Marseille...
...after Medicare went into effect, the program is causing chaos in many U.S. hospitals. Because Medicare funds are not flowing fast enough, the hospitals face a choice of going into debt or raising their fees. The trouble, conceded Hubert Humphrey last week, is all too familiar: a serious bureaucratic bottleneck in Washington...
...labor and litchi nuts. Today's scrounger can be an Air Cav supply sergeant or an Air Force crew chief, but Viet Nam's Feddersen outdoes them all-both in Yankee horse-trading skill and sheer inventiveness. In a scant 14 months, he unplugged the logistical bottleneck that had plagued the development of the Chu Lai enclave, and in the process set up his outfit as the most efficient unit in the area. "Over here it's a self-help program," says Feddersen, "where you're the self doing the helping...
...shortage will probably get worse before it gets better. Among other things, Zambia's political decision to stop shipping copper through Rhodesia creates a bottleneck that may by year's end leave 150,000 tons of Zambian copper awaiting transport. To copper producers, the great danger is that higher prices and uncertain supplies may cause copper users to switch rather than fight...