(Bloomberg - March23, 2011) Microsoft Corp.’s repair operations for Xbox units ground to a haltin Japan’s Fukushima prefecture when the earthquake knocked out power. Then thelights came on to reveal another hurdle: Shipments of the game consoles hadbeen impaired after the disaster two weeks ago. "Navigating pastquake-battered roads and bridges in the coming days may require somecreativity," said Julie Swann, co- director of the Center for Health andHumanitarian Logistics at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta. “Youcertainly try to look at alternate paths, maybe air or sea or bicycles --things you wouldn’t use in normal times,” Swann said. Click here to read the entire article.