5 challenges facing global supply chains

Sep 7, 2022

Industrial action ups the pressure on global supply chains. Image: Unsplash/ Vidar Nordli-Mathisen

Sarah Schiffling

Senior Lecturer in Supply Chain Management, Liverpool John Moores University

Nikolaos Valantasis Kanellos

Lecturer in Logistics, Technological University Dublin

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Climate change is a much more long-running problem for global supply chains. In picture: Rhine River at Kaub, Germany, August 5 2021. Image: The Conversation.

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Rhine River at Kaub, Germany, August 6 2022 with much lower water level than the year before. Image: The Conversation.

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