News / Pandemic exposes logistics weaknesses 'and the need for parallel supply chains'

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The coronavirus pandemic has exposed the vulnerability of long-distance, intercontinental supply chains, as governments around the world scramble to acquire large quantities of drugs and PPE.

There are suggestions the situation could lead to a wide-ranging redesign of global logistics.

Speaking via video link to the House of Common’s select committee on international trade, Dr Samuel Roscoe, senior lecturer in operations management at the University of Sussex, said “glaring gaps” in the supply of some products should lead to the creation of ...