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Hurricane season 2024: how to prepare your supply chain

Resilinc

Flooded or closed roadways, bridges, and overpasses can delay freight, rail, and even air cargo. Significant flooding and damage can force logistics companies to find new and longer routes. #3 Gulf Coast in August 2005. When the storm struck, it knocked out power and transportation routes.

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10 Books Logistics And Supply Chain Experts Need To Read

Freightos

There are tens of thousands of books about logistics and supply chains. Amazon has 31,817 books about supply chain and 24,934 about logistics. That’s 56,751 supply chain and logistics books. All those books would weigh 49,000 kilograms – half the cargo mass of a Boeing 747-200F. Empire State Buildings.

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Applying History’s Lessons to New Resiliency Plans

CH Robinson Transportfolio

However, we saw similar supply chain outages associated with the 2004 Tsunami in Thailand, Hurricane Katrina in 2005, and Japan’s earthquake and Tsunami in 2011. I’ll make the same argument I made eight years ago: Too many shippers and their logistics partners are not planning for these disruptions.