Summary: The extreme drought is severely impacting key European inland waterways like the Rhine and Danube, reducing navigability, forcing barges to carry reduced loads, and isolating areas from the river transport network. Simultaneously, widespread wildfires in southern Europe are causing road and highway closures, resulting in significant route diversions that increase delivery times and operational costs. This combination of impaired river and terrestrial routes is causing congestion, increased expenses, and delays across the European logistics system.
Risk Trigger: Severe weather and natural disasters causing multi-modal transport disruptions.
Strategic Detail: The reduction of fluvial transport capacity is not only increasing costs but also creating modal shifts that overload road and rail networks, which are themselves compromised by wildfire-related closures, compounding the overall disruption risk for electronics supply chains relying on European inland and terrestrial corridors.
Source: https://www.logisticanews.it/fiumi-a-secco-e-incendi-diffusi-la-difficile-estate-della-logistica-europea/
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