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High Seas Troubles Affect Global Supply Chains, Part One: Security Risks

Enterra Insights

Journalist Andrew Freedman explains, “Geopolitical risks in the Red Sea and extreme weather in Central America are converging, jostling global supply chains fed by the Suez and Panama Canals.”[3] military to clean nuclear waste from the Arctic Sea, before melting ice opened new shipping possibilities. patrol the Horn of Africa.

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Interoceanic Passages

Abivin

In the current global economy, the closure of a maritime chokepoint would have significant economic ramifications due to the disruption of trade flows and even some supply chains (e.g. This rule persisted up to the Second World War and Malaysia's independence in 1957. The area has 2.5

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The World’s Most Vulnerable Supply Chain

Logistics Viewpoints

Chip War: The Fight for the World’s Most Critical Technology won the Financial Time’s business book of the year award. It also provides a good explanation for why the semiconductor supply chain is the world’s most vulnerable supply chain. The fate of nations has turned on their ability to harness computer power.”

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Apple’s China Problem

Logistics Viewpoints

I am getting questions from friends and acquaintances about whether the US’s supply chain woes are over. The people I talk to are surprised when I say supply chain challenges are not going to disappear any time soon. In October of 2022, the Biden administration published a tough set of technology export controls.

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