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The supply chain officer for the Walt Disney Company has revealed how it managed to completely avoid any hold-ups to its cargo during the recent congestion seen across US west coast ports.

Speaking at the JOC’s TPM conference in Long Beach this week, David Croft said that during the last port lockout, in 2002, he had been running Motorola’s logistics in the region and this had left him with “some pretty deep scars”.

He told delegates: “It was absolute chaos then, and ...