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Originally Posted by sharper View Post
What do you think companies have logistics and operations departments for? They plan all this out. Do you honestly think Nokia throws their output onto the boat, sets it off over the horizon and then says "Well gee I hope they get somewhere soon so we can actually make money selling them"?
We don't even know for sure that it is Nokia that is managing the shipping from Korea to the distributors.

In many cases the distributors buy the products directly from the factories. It maybe up to the distributor how they get the products to its own warehouses.