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Red Sea Ocean Transport Disruption Update

Supply Chain Matters

These assessments are despite continued joint nation naval and air military efforts to attack and neutralize believed Houthi rebel’s missile, drone, and small ship laden attack sites. Further, Japan based shipping line Mitsui OSK Lines indicated a belief that this disruption could extend thru the balance of 2024.

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Supply Chain Risk Management and Rocket Science

Logility

I became very familiar with risk management early in my professional career. I was working as a flight test engineer on experimental military aircraft, a world where the boundary between safety and expanding capabilities was often crossed.

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This Week in Logistics News (February 19 – 25)

Logistics Viewpoints

Ukraine does not have the military might to stop the invasion. Carriers, freight forwarders, and shippers that were dealing with the China to North America trade lanes were already operating in crisis mode. While rising gas prices drive up the price of transportation, rising natural gas prices also affect global supply chains.

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Sorry, I’m Not Sure: Supply Chain and Logistics Predictions for 2018

Talking Logistics

North Korea : The more missiles North Korea launches and tests, the greater the risk for military conflict — or worse. On December 17, Newsweek reported that “The United States Military has conducted joint training operations with South Korean forces to practice removing nuclear weapons from North Korea in the event of war.”