News / A perfect supply chain storm: 'we must hunker down, collaborate and ride it out'

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Hurricane Ida cast a long shadow over transport in the US: container operations at the port of New Orleans did not resume for nine days after the storm made landfall, rail operations were still limping towards normality after 12 days and trucking rates remain high.

It does not help that virtually every aspect of supply chains is stretched to the limit, from shortages of components over ports (both pier-side and landside) and airports, rail and truck carriers to distribution centres and ...