Earthquake Exposes Risks To Supply Chain
By Madhu Unnikrishnan, Leithen Francis .
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he key aerospace risk that the magnitude 9.0 earthquake on March 11 off the northeastern coast of Japan has highlighted is that for a product such as an aircraft or engine, composed of many thousands of indispensable parts, the greater the geographic dispersion of manufacturing, the greater the chance of a natural disaster disrupting production ...
