[PeterStuer]

"So I like this stuck boat because it shows where "the system" has weaknesses."

My father was a freight Sea Captain. We learned that lesson way back in the 70's when the Suez canal was closed and boats from east Africa to Europe had to take the long way round the southern cape. Everyone knows the canal is a potentially fragile bottleneck, but what can you do about it. It's not like there are many places where you can dig a sufficiently geographically distant backup option to cover most common threat scenarios.

[nicoburns]

I think the key is that supply chains need to be resilient to shipping delays. And once you factor this in you may end up reorganising things quite radically differently. For example, it may lead you to prefer local suppliers over otherwise cheaper suppliers from a different continent.