Archives

This is a guest post by Ellie Gabel. The Baltimore bridge collapse and the Taiwan earthquake are among the latest disruptions forcing businesses to adjust their management and tracking [...]

Panama's drought, affecting the water level of the Panama Canal, continued in October. According to the Weather Channel, "The driest October since at least 1950 has left the Panama Canal with too [...]

Chain reaction. Noun. A series of events where one event causes another, then another, and so on. Example: there's a drought happening in Panama. The drought lowers the water level of Gatun Lake. [...]

On Friday, September the 16th, the mandatory cooling-off period on negotiations between U.S. railroads and their employees' unions ends, and the unions will be able to strike. That's just three [...]

Here we go again. Two weeks ago we were talking about China putting a whole province, millions and millions of people, on lockdown. This week, China put Shanghai on lockdown. Keith Wallis [...]

The Port of Ningbo – the third busiest container port in the world – was supposedly going to start a phased reopening yesterday (Wednesday, August 18th) after its Meidong Container Terminal [also [...]

This is a guest post by Jake Rheude. The core lesson of 2020 and 2021, so far, is that many global supply chains are one bad day away from breaking. An outbreak at a single fulfillment location, [...]