Unsurprisingly, given the problems for merchant shipping at the southern end of the Suez Canal, more ships are passing round the Cape of Good Hope... leading to longer journeys & container transfers at the west of the Mediterranean for shipment going to Italy, Greece etc.
Both add costs to shipments & as noted in a post yesterday, this will be another external driver of continued inflation.
Don't know how to build your green hydrogen plant; Danish Green Hydrogen Systems will sell you one in the 6 to 50MW range
-Colab with engineering firm BWSC to sell H2 plants, pre-engineered & optimized
-Based on GHS 6MW X-Series plant operating in Denmark
🌖NEXT WEEK🌗
Tues April 30 18:30 (BST)
with @ana_valdi
LIVE @UCLanthropology and on ZOOM
'The supply chain capitalism of AI: a call to (re)think algorithmic harms and resistance'
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Ana Valdivia, Lecturer at Oxford Internet Institute, will be speaking LIVE in the Daryll Forde Room, 2nd Floor of the UCL Anthropology Dept, 14 Taviton St, London WC1H 0BW
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What lies behind Greggs ongoing success & expansion?
There may be a number of factors but interestingly in an age of outsourcing & fragmented supply chains, Greggs is vertically integrated (owning most of its own manufacturing & distribution system), allowing it to be more agile in responding to shifts in the market (despite claims an integrated network would be slower).
I wonder how many business school case studies that might prompt?
#NPM based packages should mandatorily disclose whats the code size and what will be the nodes-modules folders count and total size. coz that combined together could what kind of liability i am getting myself into. #supplychain issues arise from being unaware / ignorant about your liabilities mostly.
"about 75% of the world’s industrial fishing vessels are not publicly tracked, with much of that fishing taking place around Africa and South Asia. More than 25% of transport and energy vessel activity are also missing from public tracking systems"
The UK Govt. is (likely correctly) warning UK #business that #supplychain disruption will likely worsen in 2024 & there's little the Govt. can do to help.
This suggests we will see both mounting inflationary pressure as disruptions push up costs & an increased exploration of 'restoring' or at least 'near-shoring' as companies to shorten & localise their supply chains.
For some this will look like good news, but for those countries losing valuable export business the transition may be painful!
The #GitLab#vulnerability allowing trivial account hijacking (CVE-2023-7028) will lead to ton of problems: It will allow malicious actors to perform #supplychain#attacks - something that will allow attacker to gain access to 3rd party who don't themselves run GitLab but just include from projects that do. I would suggest great caution regardless if you run GitLab yourself or not.
Naturally anyone using GitLab themselves must update as soon as possible. I would also suggest performing forensic investigation to find out if you have already been compromised, and take further action in case compromise has already occurred. Check "Were any accounts actually compromised due to this vulnerability?" section in this post for details: https://about.gitlab.com/releases/2024/01/11/critical-security-release-gitlab-16-7-2-released/
"In dozens of interviews, auditors said that sometimes their firms provide little more than a veneer of compliance for global corporations, which overstate how rigorously they review sprawling supply chains"
ICYMI: rampant child labor violations in all 50 states (NYT, gift link)
📦 🚢 Wow, Supply Studies curated by @dochock has some neat stuff coming up in the spring!
"a speaker series bringing together scholars & organizers to discuss logistical justice & examine the possibilities of reconciliation in an era of #SupplyChain#capitalism"
Featuring not only me & @athena (a very special event for all you Union.Place fanpeople out there), but also @tamigraph, @bierjess & @miriamkp! Free to register & attend
Contrary to popular dogma, industrial agriculture cannot "feed the world." Below are seven key takeaways from a report comparing the industrial food chain to the smallholder peasant food web.
Peasants are the main or sole food providers to more than 70% of the world’s people, and peasants produce this food with often much less than 25% of the resources — including land, water, fossil fuels — used to get all of the world’s food to the table.
The industrial food chain uses at least 75% of the world’s agricultural resources and is a major source of greenhouse gas emissions, but provides food to less than 30% of the world’s people.
For every $1 consumers pay to industrial food chain retailers, society pays another $2 for the industrial food chain’s health and environmental damages. The total bill for the industrial food chain's direct and indirect cost is 5 times governments’ annual military expenditure.
The industrial food chain lacks the agility to respond to climate change. Its research and development is not only distorted but also declining as it concentrates the global food market.
The peasant food web nurtures 9-100 times the biodiversity used by the industrial food chain, across plants, livestock, fish, and forests. Peasants have the knowledge, innovative energy and networks needed to respond to climate change; they have the operational scope and scale; and they are closest to the hungry and malnourished.
There is still much about our food systems that we don’t know we don’t know. Sometimes, the industrial food chain knows but isn’t telling. Other times, policymakers aren’t looking. Most often, we fail to consider the diverse knowledge systems in the peasant food web.
The bottom line: at least 3.9 billion people are either hungry or malnourished because the industrial food chain is too distorted, vastly too expensive, and — after 70 years of trying — just can’t scale up to feed the world.
With the prospect (already) of a pre-Christmas slow down in consumption (and potential #recession in the new year), #manufacturers are now facing a #supplychain crisis....
not only is the #SuezCanal already at risk due to attacks on shipping approaching the canal ('encouraging' some shippers to take longer, more expensive & slower routes), now the #panamacanal has been hit be a drought that is severely constraining its capacity.
There's going to be a lot more friction in global supply chains