New supply routes mean new convoy/logistics companies. So there might be an opportunity in the near future for other companies in the region for these supply contracts. Although I tend to think that thugs will just find a way to attack and rob those convoys as well. –Head Jundi
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U.S. Seeks New Supply Routes Into Afghanistan
Trucks From Pakistan Increasingly Attacked
By Candace Rondeaux and Walter Pincus
Washington Post Foreign Service
Wednesday, November 19, 2008; A01
TORKHAM, Afghanistan, Nov. 18 — A rise in Taliban attacks along the length of a vital NATO supply route that runs through this border town in the shadow of the Khyber Pass has U.S. officials seeking alternatives, including the prospect of beginning deliveries by a tortuous overland journey from Europe.
Supplying troops in landlocked Afghanistan has long been the Achilles’ heel of foreign armies here, most recently the Soviets, whose forces were nearly crippled by Islamist insurgent attacks on vulnerable supply lines.