BBCNEWS Asia July 6, 2024
appliance company electrolux is setting up a task force to find alternative routes while ikea is warning of potential product shortages. ryan petersen from the supply chain management company flexport told me more about how the disruption is already impacting business. it's just getting started, but over the weekend and through today, we've had all ten of the top container shipping lines in the world represented about 95% capacity have begun delivered vessels to avoid salem to the red sea and to go around the tip of africa, as you said. it takes about 25% longer to go that way, from ...