In the recent “Vulnerable Supply Chains” report (something of a misnomer as the key finding was that supply chains are not, in fact, vulnerable), the Productivity Commission has pointed out the extreme costs of a “national fleet”.
Although most of the inquiry looked into the vulnerability (or, rather, the lack thereof) of goods in...
Australia’s shipping sector is resilient during the COVID pandemic. That’s a key finding from the Productivity Commission Vulnerable Supply Chains study, which was released earlier this week.
“The Australian shipping sector proved to be resilient” is what the study says in Box 2.4, fourth paragraph down.
The report also later concluded that: “Services...
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Catherine de Fontenay, The University of Melbourne
Until COVID, Australians had a pretty safe assumption that global supply chains could supply more or less whatever they wanted.
And then it became hard to get sanitiser and masks and other kinds of personal protective equipment.
Most of those supply chains were quickly reestablished, but the sudden appearance of vulnerabilities prompted...
Dramatic new evidence from the UN Conference on Trade and Development shows just how much the demand for goods has soared because of COVID-19. And, crucially, despite what you may have read in various places over the last few days, it provides evidence that the goods supply chain (read: container shipping) is highly resilient.
What is supply chain resilience?“Supply chain resilience has been defined as the...