United States Saw Record Cargo Theft, Natural Disasters Impact Commercial Supply Chain

While global supply chains across the world saw many new threats and hardships in 2016, cargo theft remained among the most prevalent in North America, according to a study published by the British Standards Institute earlier today.

The Annual Global Supply Chain Intelligence Review, which monitored supply chain risks across the world last year, also reports that the issue of cargo theft and potential drug smuggling cases is expected to continue throughout 2017 in North America….

Conflicts, disasters uprooted over 31 million people in 2016

The Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre say political turmoil and climate change-related disasters displace one person every second, with the Democratic Republic of Congo, Syria, Iraq and China the worst affected…