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Kuehne+Nagel has developed a new metric to measure supply chain problems.

The Sea Freight Disruption Indicator will calculate the cumulative waiting time of vessels against their capacity.

The system measures cumulative teu waiting days at various major ports including Los Angeles/Long Beach, Shanghai/Ningbo, Hong Kong, New York, Savannah, Prince Rupert, Vancouver/Seattle, Oakland and Rotterdam/Antwerp.

Under the formula, a vessel with 10,000 teu capacity waiting 12 days to enter a port equates to a cumulative 120,000 teu ‘waiting days’.

Unsurprisingly the disruption indicator currently shows ...