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Comment / Against the odds: One unusual week in logistics with Kuehne on my mind

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Wednesday cab pick-up at The Loadstar Towers, 4.30am. Direction: London Stansted Airport.

The incoming emails and messages just wouldn’t stop. One from Asia even called. Then another. I wouldn’t bother talking.

Several hours later…

Landed in Bergamo, near Milan.

For a change and to keep a cool head, still not engaging with anybody, I drove 330 miles straight down the east coast of Italy to meet my son the next day, Thursday – to only drive him back up north to my home town, ...

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