The Black Sea’s Quiet Stranglehold
The narrowest point of the Bosphorus is 700 metres wide. Seven football pitches, end to end. Every ship that enters or leaves the Black Sea must pass through that gap, past the skyline of Istanbul,…
Resilience
The Drone on DHL’s Runway
At Leipzig/Halle Airport, the drone was not supposed to be there. It was found on the runway area, carrying explosives, at one of Europe’s busiest cargo airports. This is not a battlefield. This is the…
From the Rhine to the Arctic: The New Geography of Supply Chain Risk
A container ship just sailed from South Korea to Rotterdam through the Arctic. On the same day, barge traffic on the Rhine River, Europe’s busiest inland waterway, ground to a near halt because there was…
AI Is Optimizing Your Supply Chain While Starving It of Chips
Last month, Nissin Foods announced something quietly remarkable. The company behind Cup Noodles expects significantly higher fill rates this year, not because it built new factories or hired more planners. It credited an AI-powered demand…
The Multifront Storm
When a Canadian logistics director wakes up to find that 25 percent of his trucking fleet is suddenly stuck at the Ambassador Bridge because of a retaliatory tariff hold, he does not have time to…
The Judgment Gap in Supply Chain Resilience
Supply chain leaders have spent over ten billion dollars on AI platforms, digital twins, and control towers in the past three years alone. Yet when a container ship blocks the Suez Canal, a pandemic shuts…