Editor's Note: Today's post is from Dick Locke, Sourcing Innovation's resident expert on International Sourcing and Procurement. (His previous guest posts are still archived.)

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Best reader comment: "Sh@#$% ! My Porsche was in that container, I suppose I'm not going to get it by Friday "

Full story on MSNBC.

Fortunately for the environment and the supply chain, this doesn't happen often.

Thanks, Dick!