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Supply Chain Risk Management Highlighted by a Tiny Computer Chip

Enterra Insights

Jordan Robertson and Michael Riley explain what happened next.[2]. As the British journalist Rose George documents in her book Ninety Percent of Everything , some 100,000 enormous freight ships transport 90 percent of the world’s trade. That assessment turned up a troubling discovery. All of this is extraordinarily cheap.

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Spire and Gravity Supply Chain solutions helping restore flow of goods

Gravity Supply Chain

Most of the container traffic flows across the Pacific Ocean or between Europe and Asia. Founded in 1852, it is today an international freight forwarder that offers a suite of air and sea services to clients in multiple verticals that are all facing increasing pressure in areas like time-to-market to sustainability.