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PRO Report: Shipping & Supply Chain Disruptions
A deep dive into how to track and prepare for supply chain interruptions
Andrew Sheves
February 15th, 2024
Welcome to this week’s PRO Research report. These are long-form analyses of something that’s important to decision-makers, giving them the background and context on the issue along with some insight into how things might develop.
This week’s report focuses on maritime supply chains, what can interrupt these, and how you can make your supply chain more resilient.
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The Importance of Shipping
Amateurs talk tactics; professionals talk logistics.
Acknowledging the importance of shipping alone won’t help organizations plan for potential disruptions. Particularly as the category of ‘shipping’ covers a wide range of cargoes, routes, vessels, origins and destinations. So there’s no single shipping market, meaning there’s no single supply chain.
However, there are common factors that affect all shipping-related supply chains, and if we pay attention to these, we will get a good sense of the macro-level health of the maritime element of an organization’s supply line.