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User perceptions of intransit visibility architecture utility.(INSIDE LOGISTICS: EXPLORING THE HEART OF LOGISTICS)
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Background
During the buildup of Operation Desert Shield, the Saudi Arabian ports of Ad Dammam and Al Jubayl were congested with tens of thousands of military and commercially leased containers. (1) The containers were required to transport the vast amount of equipment to the region in preparation for the liberation of Kuwait. The problem, in essence, was threefold:
* Delivering the containers to the various ports
* Knowing what was in the containers
* Knowing who owned them once they arrived
Of the 40,000 containers in the port, 25,000 required opening to determine the owner and their contents, carrying an associated price tag of $1B. (2) According to the former director of logistics for United States Transportation Command, General Walter Kross,
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