News / East Europe's logistics carry on through war, thanks to Covid lessons

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has impeded the logistics sector’s recovery from the pandemic – but without the lessons learned from Covid, the war could have generated a regional collapse.

Adam Komorowski, MD of Poland-based EAS International, said the 2020 lockdowns essentially provided supply chains a level of immunisation from external shocks, which he described as “a pandemic-induced vaccine”.

He told The Loadstar: “This ’vaccine’ taught us how to swiftly identify and switch to alternative regions to serve as new sourcing locations for our ...