Supply chain radar: JB Hunt – great problems to have in the glory days
It is decision time now for JB Hunt, which opens the earnings season.
When thinking of the word ‘slave’, most minds spring back to the African slave trade to North America and the Caribbean in the 18th and 19th Century – but to this very day, slavery remains one of the biggest, unsolved issues for humankind throughout the ages of “civilisation”.
And just as we are reminded daily of the ins and outs that this emotional topic had brought through the advent of modern slavery legislation in many western countries – here’s the bullet ...
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