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International connections

For those with a taste for all things international, the global nature of air cargo is baked into the very fiber of the industry.

“While many industries have global offices, in logistics, almost every transaction involves two countries,” said Michél Patterson, vice president of performance management at Hellmann Worldwide Logistics.

“Logistics gives opportunities to all types and sizes of business to grow their customer base to other countries,” she said. “Likewise, for those customers, they have opportunities to purchase those goods. It may seem like simply getting things transported from A to B. To me, it is an amazing gift.”