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Strikes and protests disrupt supply chains, globally

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In Sri Lanka, a popular uprising chased the president from the country last week. Bloomberg’s trade specialist Brendan Murray warns that this “instability may ripple to the market for air cargo, which tightened considerably over the past two years because so many grounded flights cut capacity in the cargo holds” of passenger planes.

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This Week in Logistics News (May 29 – June 4)

Logistics Viewpoints

Carriers bet on Capacity-as-a-Service. Sri Lanka braces for oil spill from sunken cargo ship. Trucking companies are now joining the fun, launching capacity-as-a-service (CaaS) businesses. Yesterday, a chemical-laden cargo ship sank off the coast of Sri Lanka, sparking fears of an environmental disaster.