The military has also been authorized to commandeer private tanker trucks to keep gasoline supplies moving.
Japan's major automakers, for example, have long had contingency plans in place to keep supplies moving.
He controlled a secret bombing campaign against North Vietnamese troops and supplies moving through Laotian territory along the Ho Chi Minh Trail.
The crossings, through which most supplies move, were reopened on Wednesday after the Finance Ministry gave the coalition another month to settle the matter.
Convoys of dark green military trucks, filled with soldiers and supplies, move along the road, guarded by soldiers with machine-guns.
Another brigade from Narino Province beat back a rebel assault on Friday in Santiago, Mr. Pizano said, adding that the action let supplies move along an important mountain road.
Because information flowed at a glacial pace, and supplies moved only slightly faster, companies strove to manage the entire chain of production within the walls of their own corporations.
Kerry said the United States had seen supplies moving into Ukraine from Russia in the last month, including a 150-vehicle convoy of armored personnel carriers, tanks and rocket launchers given to the separatists.
Food, medicines and a field hospital are said to be among the supplies moved into position, officials say, which would not be necessary for any spring military exercise.
US Secretary of State John Kerry said the US had seen major military supplies moving into Ukraine from Russia in the last month, including a convoy of armoured personnel carriers, tanks and rocket launchers.
