Los Angeles, New York and Chicago, America's other big logistics centres, are all hemmed in.

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The second big hurdle is the logistics, and costs, involved in working.

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Some new logistics system that will deliver big savings over the long run will cost more money upfront.

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It had earlier claimed that The Royal Parks did not recognise the complex logistics and costs associated with running big events in a central London location.

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While many big retailers, consumer-packaged-goods companies, and logistics companies initially expressed great interest in RFID technologies, their immediate concern was how in the world would they ever be able to manage the unprecedently massive streams of data emanating from these new networks of things.

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Walmex Chief Executive Eduardo Castro notes one big piece of the formula copycatted from the U.S.: logistics.

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On the other hand, our big airbase in southeastern Turkey, Incirlik, is the key staging area for logistics in northern Iraq.

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According to Bruno Sidler, the chief operating officer of CEVA, which manages logistics and freight for companies in 170 countries, European manufacturers are vulnerable to any big supply shock because they have run down their inventories over the past two years to conserve cash.

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Last week, Hargreaves Services, a coal-mining and logistics company based in Durham, bought the debt linked to secured assets that belonged to another big Scottish coal producer ATH, which was forced into administration in December.

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