Transportation, a Book Review

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Kyle Peterson, The Miracle in a Coffee Cup; Domino’s Pizza is actually in the logistics business, funneling pineapple from Thailand, boxes from Georgia and salt from Minnesota. Wall Street Journal, Apr 25, 2016
http://www.wsj.com/articles/the- ... ffee-cup-1461530853
(book review on Edward Humes, Door to Door; The maddening, mysterious world of transportation. Harper, 2016)

Quote: "Sending a ton of iron ore halfway around the world, he says, costs only $10. For a $50 bottle of Scotch, the cost is 15 cents.

Note:
(a) "The more complicated the product, the more tangled the supply chain. Mr Humes suggests that the components of an iPhone “collectively travel enough miles to circumnavigate the planet at least eight times.” Assembly takes place in China, but the barometric sensor comes from Germany, the Gorilla Glass from Kentucky, the microprocessor from Taiwan [TSMC] or Texas [Samsung]."
(b) "Mandating collision-avoidance systems, and governors to prevent speeding, could make cars safer, too"

governor (device)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Governor_(device)