News / Diversify post-Covid, but 'shorter supply chains aren’t a shortcut to more efficiency'

A post-pandemic push to diversify and shorten supply chains poses new risks to cargo owners, a senior container transport executive has warned.

Following the virus outbreak in China and subsequent ripples of supply chain disruption worldwide, calls for near-shoring and an end to over-reliance on a single sourcing location have grown louder.

Governments in particular are likely to reassess supply chains for medical equipment and critical drugs.

However, Mike Bhaskaran, chief technology officer at DP World, warned that supply chain diversification should not ...