News / European shippers limit supply chain risk via multiple sourcing

As the supply chain disruption in China continues, European shippers are spreading their sourcing efforts among multiple locations and ordering smaller shipments.

Rogier Spoel, senior policy manager air and ocean freight at Dutch shipper association evofenedex, said companies in the textiles industry had begun moving to Turkey and North Africa, for example.

“We’re not seeing a permanent shift, but there’s a lot more ’production spreading’ going on,” he said on an Nieuwsblad Transport webinar.

“So instead of focusing on one market and one producer ...