Brooke Sutherland, Columnist

Ukraine War Makes Supply Chain Problems Seem Quaint

Industrial companies’ logistics snarls pale in comparison to geopolitical conflict.

March 11, 2022 at 5:08 PM UTC

Brooke Sutherland is Bloomberg News' Boston bureau chief and writes the Industrial Strength Newsletter. She was previously a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering deals and industrial companies and an M&A reporter for Bloomberg News.

The number of ships waiting to unload outside the twin Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach has been cut in half. — The number of ships waiting to unload outside the twin Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach has been cut in half.
Photographer: Mario Tama/Getty Images

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Maybe port logjams and semiconductor shortages weren’t such bad problems to have after all.